Brigitte Bardot Quotes

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

“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.”

“Champagne is the one thing that gives me zest when I am tired.”

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

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

“Fame had brought me so much unhappiness.”

“Fashion may not be a weapon of the woman but at least it gives her the ammunition.”

“Fur is only of use to the animal that wears it.”

“Human cruelty knows no limits and that one needs immense courage and a will of iron to help others understand that animals are made of flesh and blood like us, that they suffer the same pains as us, that they deserve the same respect as us and that their continuous slaughter should not be part of human entertainment.”

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

“I am greatly misunderstood by politically correct idiots.”

“I am no mother, and I won't be one.”

“I am not an actress. I can only play me – on and off the screen.”

“I am shocking, impertinent and insolent that's how it is.”

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

“I don't have the time or the desire to gaze at my navel.”

“I don't think when I make love.”

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

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

“I have found out that friendship is quite as important as love and it isn't any easier than love.”

“I have the courage of my convictions.”

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

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

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

“I leave before being left. I decide.”

“I mourn the fact that my beautiful country has deteriorated in every way.”

“I never do anything by chance.”

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

“I really am a cat transformed into a woman.”

“I say what I think and I think what I say.”