Brigitte Bardot Quotes

“I am no mother, and I won't be one.”

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

“We must live today and never regret about past, which often brings nothing but melancholy. ”

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

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

“I don't think when I make love.”

“Do you have to have a reason for loving?”

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

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

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

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

“I accept differences of cultures in all countries. But unfortunately, cows are grown to be eaten, dogs are not. I accept that many people eat beef, but a cultured country does not allow its people to eat dogs.”

“All these animals are put in cages, never see the sun or grass, and they leave this hell only to go to the slaughter-house. For me intensive breeding is a sign of human degeneration. If one can find that acceptable, then we humans have lost all moral value. … [How long have you been a vegetarian? ] Since 1962, when I went on French television to denounce conditions of animal slaughter. That is when I became aware of the horror of factory farming, live transports and the killings of farm animals. I have always been sensitive to animal distress but from then on I refused to be involved in such inhuman industrial deaths.”

“To experience the loneliness of soul is the hardest thing in the world.”

“Only idiots refuse to change their minds.”

“It is impossible to look young unless one is young.”

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

“People are forever finding something wrong with you.”

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

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

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

“Fame had brought me so much unhappiness.”

“What does it mean, being a woman?”

“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 never do anything by chance.”

“I leave before being left. I decide.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.”