Quotes by Brigitte Bardot

• It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.
• If this fame, which people call my lucky break, were to stop tomorrow, I shouldn't care.
• 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.
• If I go to a restaurant, other people stare. The meal is ruined.
• 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.
• I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film.
• It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
• I never do anything by chance.
• Percentages are why I am rich.
• I started out as a lousy actress and have remained one.
• It's better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be.
• James Stewart was so kind and considerate and had such personal integrity.
• My soul is not my own any more. I cannot live like I want to. I am going to give up films.
• People are forever finding something wrong with you.
• They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself.
• Vadim changed my mind about acting. Vadim was the only man who was certain I had something special to offer.
• Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands.
• What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
• What does it mean, being a woman?
• I know very few Americans, though I like the way they think. They think big.
• Only idiots refuse to change their minds.
• I know what sin is.
• 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.
• Film-making was not at all what I had expected.
• Films have never shown the kind of relationship that can exist between two women.
• Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras?
• I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand.
• I am 30, but there are things about me that are still 15.
• I leave before being left. I decide.
• 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.
• I am no mother, and I won't be one.
• 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 am really not interested in the cinema. I loathed it when I started six years ago, and I don't enjoy it even now.
• I can't do the same thing every night, the same gestures... it's like putting on dirty panties every day.
• 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 no private life at all. I am a hunted woman. I can't take a step without being questioned and surrounded.
• I have not always loved wisely, but I was young.
• I have to live with both my selves as best I may.
• I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.