Brigitte Bardot Quotes (55 Quotes)

Do you have to have a reason for loving?

If this fame, which people call my lucky break, were to stop tomorrow, I shouldn't care.

When youre thirty youre old enough to know better, but still young enough to go ahead and do it.

It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.

Films have never shown the kind of relationship that can exist between two women.

I know very few Americans, though I like the way they think. They think big.

My soul is not my own any more. I cannot live like I want to. I am going to give up films.

I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.

My trust in you is broken and I am plunged into despair for the animals.

I might not ever come here again. So I ask you with my heart and soul . . . I want to see this massacre stop. I would like that my life would have served at least for that.

I have not always loved wisely, but I was young.

I am really not interested in the cinema. I loathed it when I started six years ago, and I don't enjoy it even now.

Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands.

If we don't get an answer, we will, strengthened by the support we receive, try to overthrow the government.

I have to live with both my selves as best I may.

What does it mean, being a woman?

Men are beasts and even beasts don't behave as they do.

I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand.

It's better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be.

I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian.

It's incredible to think that such dreadful things are still happening in a country like Canada, in a country that can hardly be considered undeveloped. We're not living in caves any more.

People are forever finding something wrong with you.

I started out as a lousy actress and have remained one.

James Stewart was so kind and considerate and had such personal integrity.

I can't do the same thing every night, the same gestures... it's like putting on dirty panties every day.

I am all right when I work. I am not superficial and I am not ungrateful.

Vadim changed my mind about acting. Vadim was the only man who was certain I had something special to offer.

Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras?

I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.

Film-making was not at all what I had expected.

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

unfortunately these are not isolated incidents, and the people of Reunion are the first to be horrified by this despicable barbarity which mars the image of their island.

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.

Fame had brought me so much unhappiness.

If only every man who sees my films did not get the impression he can make love to me, I would be a lot happier.

I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film.

If I go to a restaurant, other people stare. The meal is ruined.

I am 30, but there are things about me that are still 15.

I don't think when I make love.

What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

The myth of Bardot is finished, but Brigitte is me

I know what sin is.

They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself.

I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.

I am no mother, and I won't be one.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Percentages are why I am rich.