Top 60 Brigitte Bardot Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Brigitte Bardot

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

— Brigitte Bardot

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

— Brigitte Bardot

4. “I wanted to be myself. Only myself.”

— Brigitte Bardot

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

— Brigitte Bardot

6. “I am a woman that defends animals, right, left, and in the centre. Animals aren’t political.”

— Brigitte Bardot

7. “Death was like love, a romantic escape.”

— Brigitte Bardot

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

— Brigitte Bardot

9. “There is a French proverb: To live happy, live hidden. Where can Brigitte Bardot hide?”

— Brigitte Bardot

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

— Brigitte Bardot

11. “I think animals help us live; they’ve helped me live. It was only when I began to devote myself to protecting animals that I blossomed completely. Taking care of them, looking out for them, has given my life true meaning, a meaning I hope future generations can experience.”

— Brigitte Bardot

12. “My private life became public.”

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13. “Was it me that Botticelli imagined?”

— Brigitte Bardot

14. “People are forever finding something wrong with you.”

— Brigitte Bardot

15. “I have never put a gun to anyone’s head to obligate him to marry me.”

— Brigitte Bardot

16. “I am all right when I work. I am not superficial and I am not ungrateful.”

— Brigitte Bardot

17. “I have no regrets. If I wanted to keep acting, I would have never left the cinema.”

— Brigitte Bardot

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

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19. “Fame had brought me so much unhappiness.”

— Brigitte Bardot

20. “My wild and free side unsettled some, and unwedged others.”

— Brigitte Bardot

21. “Success is unpredictable and fragile.”

— Brigitte Bardot

22. “No more hard work than look beautiful with eight in the morning until midnight.”

— Brigitte Bardot

23. “You can be barefoot and have worries.”

— Brigitte Bardot

24. “I didn’t throw myself off my balcony only because I knew people would photograph me lying dead.”

— Brigitte Bardot

25. “Percentages are why I am rich.”

— Brigitte Bardot

26. “What does it mean, being a woman?”

— Brigitte Bardot

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

— Brigitte Bardot

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

— Brigitte Bardot

29. “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.”

— Brigitte Bardot

30. “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.”

— Brigitte Bardot

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

— Brigitte Bardot

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

— Brigitte Bardot

33. “I never do anything by chance.”

— Brigitte Bardot

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

— Brigitte Bardot

35. “I do not understand girls who imagine that something forbidden. You can prohibit someone, but did not imagine.”

— Brigitte Bardot

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

— Brigitte Bardot

37. “The first time that I came to Cannes, I think it was in 1953, I was 18 and unknown.”

— Brigitte Bardot

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

— Brigitte Bardot

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

— Brigitte Bardot

40. “I am no mother, and I won’t be one.”

— Brigitte Bardot

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

— Brigitte Bardot

42. “The world today doesn’t please me.”

— Brigitte Bardot

43. “I have not always loved wisely, but I was young.”

— Brigitte Bardot

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

— Brigitte Bardot

45. “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.”

— Brigitte Bardot

46. “The myth of Bardot is finished, but Brigitte is me.”

— Brigitte Bardot

47. “I never force myself to dance or sing.”

— Brigitte Bardot

48. “Unfortunately, I am not like a snail or a turtle, and I can’t take my houses with me when I move.”

— Brigitte Bardot

49. “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.”

— Brigitte Bardot

50. “Nobody has any security in loving me.”

— Brigitte Bardot