Brigitte Bardot

Actress

122 Quotes

I wasn't scandalous - I didn't want to be.

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

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

I know it's horrible to have to admit that, but I'm not adult enough to take care of a child.

Yes, I've often been threatened by hunters, by horsemeat butchers, and seal murderers... I am still alive!

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

Fame had brought me so much unhappiness.

I don't see how a socialist government can tolerate hunting on horseback. The people who do this are snobs; they're very well-to-do.

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

There is a certain dignity to being French.

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.

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

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

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.

Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal.

My private life became public.

I am not an actress. I can only play me - on and off the screen.

I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can't do without them.

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

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.

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