Brigitte Bardot Quotes

#1. China once again disgusts the world, portraying the image of a cruel, perverted people devoid of any feelings towards animals.

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

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#3. You can be barefoot and have worries.

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

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#5. I am a woman that defends animals, right, left, and in the centre. Animals aren't political.

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

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#7. I don't think I was a good comedian.

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#8. It is better to be wrong than correct with no desire to be.

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#9. I tried to make myself as pretty as possible and even then I thought I was ugly. I found it madly difficult to go out, to show myself.

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#10. I am shocking, impertinent and insolent that's how it is.

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#11. Nobody has any security in loving me.

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

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

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#14. I don't think when I make love.

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#15. I know what sin is.

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#16. Unfortunately these are not isolated incidents, and the people of Reunion are the first to be horrified by this despicable barbarity which mars the image of their island.

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

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#18. What does it mean, being a woman?

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#19. People are forever finding something wrong with you.

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#20. I have never put a gun to anyone's head to obligate him to marry me.

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

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#22. People have already dirtied my name too much.

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

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#24. Fame had brought me so much unhappiness.

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

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#26. My country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims.

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#27. On the outside one is a star. But in reality, one is completely alone, doubting everything. To experience this loneliness of soul is the hardest thing in the world.

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#28. There is a certain dignity to being French.

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#29. No more hard work than look beautiful with eight in the morning until midnight.

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

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#31. I have the courage of my convictions.

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#32. 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.

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

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#34. Romania will not be able to evolve if it continues to take cruel decisions against sensitive creatures, which are under the protection of European law.

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#35. I am no mother, and I won't be one.

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#36. Men are beasts and even beasts don't behave as they do.

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

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

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#40. I didn't throw myself off my balcony only because I knew people would photograph me lying dead.

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

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

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#43. I really am a cat transformed into a woman.

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#44. Among Muslims, I think there are some who are very good and some hoodlums, like everywhere.

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

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#46. I never do anything by chance.

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

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

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#49. I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.

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

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

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#52. I leave before being left. I decide.

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#53. Death was like love, a romantic escape.

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

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#55. I knew I had to be the best at something, otherwise I would be nothing. I knew I wanted the world to know about Brigitte Bardot.

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#56. I never force myself to dance or sing.

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

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#58. 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.

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#59. I do not understand girls who imagine that something forbidden. You can prohibit someone, but did not imagine.

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#60. I can no longer walk. I can no longer swim. But I'm lucky when I see how animals suffer.

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#61. 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.

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#62. Was it me that Botticelli imagined?

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

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

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

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#66. 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.

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#67. Solitude scares me. It makes me think about love, death, and war. I need distraction from anxious, black thoughts.

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

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#69. Do you have to have a reason for loving?

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#70. The page has turned. Cinema is finished for me.

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

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

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#73. 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.

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#74. Champagne is the one thing that gives me zest when I am tired.

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#75. I am against the Islamisation of France.

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#76. I say what I think and I think what I say.

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#77. I stopped making films to look after animals.

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#78. Now, if there was one woman in the world who didn't need publicity, who always had too much publicity, it was me.

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#79. Unfortunately, I am not like a snail or a turtle, and I can't take my houses with me when I move.

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#80. In a democracy one must have the right to express oneself and that's what I do, even if it displeases.

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#81. There is a French proverb: To live happy, live hidden. Where can Brigitte Bardot hide?

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#82. It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

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#83. I am really not interested in the cinema.

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#84. We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?

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

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

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#87. Percentages are why I am rich.

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#88. 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.

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#89. When I love, I do it without counting. I give myself entirely. And each time, it is the grand love of my life.

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

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#91. If people don't like me, I become very plain.

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

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#93. Success is unpredictable and fragile.

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#94. I wanted to be myself. Only myself.

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

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

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

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#98. I never get hung up on the past - the memories are too negative.

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#99. 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.

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#100. My private life became public.

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