Top 50 Brigitte Bardot Quotes

I never do anything by chance.

Animals have never betrayed me. They are an easy prey, as I have been throughout my career. So we feel the same. I love them.

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

I say what I think and I think what I say.

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

People have already dirtied my name too much.

I know what sin is.

I am typically French.

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

I never get hung up on the past – the memories are too negative.

If I upset some notions and went against established rules, that wasn’t part of what I wanted to do. It wasn’t my goal.

Now, if there was one woman in the world who didn’t need publicity, who always had too much publicity, it was me.

I am greatly misunderstood by politically correct idiots.

I have no private life at all. I am a hunted woman. I can’t take a step without being questioned and surrounded.

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

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

As for being a little bunny that never says a word, that is truly the opposite of me.

All of my causes, including the most radical, are motivated by the defense of animals.

Among Muslims, I think there are some who are very good and some hoodlums, like everywhere.

I am no mother, and I won’t be one.

I don’t feel old or used up, and I don’t have time to waste thinking about aging, because I live only for my cause.

No matter whether it’s someone from the political left or right, we just need a voice to stand up and defend animal rights.

Romania will not be able to evolve if it continues to take cruel decisions against sensitive creatures, which are under the protection of European law.

I have the courage of my convictions.

I live the life of a farmer. I don’t see how I could wear Lagerfeld’s designs while feeding my goats. I have respect for Lagerfeld as a man, but I would have so much more for him if he, in turn, respected animals. We do not live in the same world.

My mother wanted me to be friends only with children she considered socially suitable.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life.

Fur is not luxury: it is an industry of death and suffering.

I am shocking, impertinent and insolent that’s how it is.

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

I am really not interested in the cinema.

I regret nothing.

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

The woman who made those movies, that’s not me. She’s someone else.

I knew I had to be the best at something, otherwise I would be nothing. I knew I wanted the world to know about Brigitte Bardot.

I don’t have the time or the desire to gaze at my navel.

I left a world in which I was a queen to enter one in which I’m a human being.

People are forever finding something wrong with you.

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

China once again disgusts the world, portraying the image of a cruel, perverted people devoid of any feelings towards animals.

I stopped making films to look after animals.

I belong to no party, and I am militant for no one.

I tried to make myself as pretty as possible and even then I thought I was ugly. I found it madly difficult to go out, to show myself.

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

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

I’m not an extremist, you know.

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

Nobody has any security in loving me.

I’m not made to be a mother.

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