Quotes By Brigitte Bardot

I know what sin is.

I only want to protect animals from barbarous, cruel, inhuman and backward rituals.

It's the decomposition that gets me. You spend your whole life looking after your body. And then you rot away.

My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to them for it.

I would like, before I die, to see the changes I've always fought for being made. If not, my life will have been worth nothing.

I regret nothing.

I am astonished and surprised that someone could consider making a film about me without talking to me about it.

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

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

We have to convince the people of Bucharest, who are dog lovers, to treat dogs like they treat their children and not just let them roam the streets.

I'm not an extremist, you know.

The world today doesn't please me.

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.

I never left France for Hollywood nor stashed my money in Switzerland.

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

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

I stopped making films to look after animals.

Nobody has any security in loving me.

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

Fame had brought me so much unhappiness.

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

My wild and free side unsettled some, and unwedged others.

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

I leave before being left. I decide.

Do you have to have a reason for loving?

I don't think I was a good comedian.

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

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

I only live in the world of animal protection. I speak only of that. I think only of that. I am obsessed.

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