Brigitte Bardot Quotes

I have always adored beautiful young men. Just because I grow older, my taste doesn`t change. So if I can still have them, why not?

If I could do anything about the way people behave towards each other, I would, but since I can`t I`ll stick to animals.

(when asked what was the best day of her life) It was a night .

Men are beasts and even beasts don`t behave as they do.

I don`t think when I make love.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I leave before being left. I decide.

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

Fame had brought me so much unhappiness.

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

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

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

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

I never do anything by chance.

I can`t do the same thing every night, the same gestures... it`s like putting on dirty panties every day.

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

Do you have to have a reason for loving?

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

I am no mother, and I won`t be one.

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

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

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.

Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

People are forever finding something wrong with you.

I know what sin is.

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

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.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

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

I am not finding pregnancy much of a joy. I am afraid of childbirth, but I am afraid I can`t find a way of avoiding it.

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

(when asked what was the best day of her life) It was a night . . .

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

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.

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

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

(interview on her 50th birthday, London Times, Sept. 28, 1984) I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.

Percentages are why I am rich.

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

If this fame, which people call my lucky break, were to stop tomorrow, I shouldn`t care.

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

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

I am against marriage, and I don`t give a fig for society.

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

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

(ex-husband Roger Vadim on Bardot) Although she had a gift for infidelity, she always suffered if she had an affair with more than one man at a time.

I have no private life at all. I am a hunted woman. I can`t take a step without being questioned and surrounded.

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

What does it mean, being a woman?

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

By denying the responsibility of man in global warming, by advocating gun rights and making statements that are disconcertingly stupid, you are a disgrace to women and you alone represent a terrible threat, a true environmental catastrophe.

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

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

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

(On Sarah Palin) By denying the responsibility of man in global warming, by advocating gun rights and making statements that are disconcertingly stupid, you are a disgrace to women and you alone represent a terrible threat, a true environmental catastrophe.

I`m really not into Cinema. I loathed it when I started six years ago.

If this fame, which people call my `lucky break`, were to stop tomorrow, I shouldn`t care.

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

Films have never shown the kind of relationship that can exist between Two Women.

It is better to be Unfaithful, than Faithful without wanting to be.

When you are Thirty you`re old enough to know better, but still young enough to go ahead and do it.