A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
At first I missed Vadim terribly. Later, I became used to our separations.
Do you have to have a reason for loving?
Do you really think a woman is better off if she is married and she doesn't dare divorce because of what people will think?
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?
He dominates me, and I love it. He is a big man, and this will last.
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 am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.
I am all right when I work. I am not superficial and I am not ungrateful.
I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.
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 am still terribly claustrophobic.
I am tired and worn out. I cannot make up my mind about anything.
I beg you to leave me alone. Anyway, I am going to die.
I can never say the English are unemotional ever again.
I can't do the same thing every night, the same gestures... it's like putting on dirty panties every day.
I could get along by myself if I had to.
I couldn't give anyone else roots if I was completely rootless myself.
I didn't know a lot of children because my mother only wanted me to meet a certain class. I remember worrying a lot about that.
I do not feel that I have suffered great tragedies.
I don't think when I make love.
I felt I was in prison, and that was no life for a child. I would have made his life hell.
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 brought with me a lot of nightdresses. I hope someone will ask me out.
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 have two dogs, a spaniel and and a cocker spaniel. I have six doves and 10 love birds. I even like mice.
I know I have something. Publicity doesn't count for it. If you have something you will get on by yourself.
I know very few Americans, though I like the way they think. They think big.
I know what sin is.
I leave before being left. I decide.
I love to love and I hate to leave, but I love freely and I live freely.
I needed a mother, a support, a shoulder to cry on.
I never do anything by chance.
I should have married someone stable, a real companion.
I should not drop those parts of my personality that the public love.
I started out as a lousy actress and have remained one.
I still never think about the future.
I thought a film was made from the beginning to the end and not in disconnected little bits.
I took the keys from his hand, kicked him up the backside, and slammed the door in his face.
I wanted the world to hear of Brigitte Bardot. And they would have done, even if it was not the way it turned out.
I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film.
I was just a child myself, I couldn't look after myself even, I was no good for anyone else.
I was supposed to die, and if I didn't it was only because of a combination of miracles.
I was unbalanced, lost, and I couldn't lean on any newborn baby.
I would so much like to be a woman just like everyone else.
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'm the man of the house. I have to do everything myself. I have no principles in life, and I am open about it.
I've seen enough turning points. There is too big a gap between who I am and what people think I am.
If I didn't visit America before, it was because I was afraid of the storm.
If I fail to appear at a gala, they accuse me of spoiling the show. That's unfair.
If I go to a restaurant, other people stare. The meal is ruined.
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 this fame, which people call my lucky break, were to stop tomorrow, I shouldn't care.
If Warner Brothers hadn't wanted to tie me down for seven years, I wouldn't have gone to America.
In America they all wanted to make me into a sexy actress as if it was the only possible thing for a girl with my surname to be.
It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
It wasn't the first time I had flirted, even though I was only 14, but up to then my flirtations had not been serious.
It's better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be.
James Stewart was so kind and considerate and had such personal integrity.
Men are beasts and even beasts don't behave as they do.
My mother used to say that Papa went through life with a rose in his hand. It was a charming notion.
My soul is not my own any more. I cannot live like I want to. I am going to give up films.
Nicolas' birth was a terrible time for me and people treated me like savages.
No one expected to get in first time. You might do it on your second try.
Only idiots refuse to change their minds.
People are forever finding something wrong with you.
Percentages are why I am rich.
There's something stronger than me which makes me do stupid things. It's as if I'm going to die tomorrow.
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?
What is the matter with British boys? They can't make love.
Whenever I walked, undressed, or ate breakfast, I always had the impression that he was looking at me with everyone's eyes.
Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Bardot is attempting to save convicted killer Farley C. Matchett from execution in Texas. She claims that Matchett was acting in self-defense when he stabbed his victim back in 1991. She wrote a letter to Texas governor Rick Perry asking for a pardon.
Brigitte's father is Louis Bardot.
Brigitte recorded many popular songs in the 1960's and 1970's.
Brigitte is a vegetarian.
Brigitte was Marianne de France from 1970-1980, which is the bust of the most beautiful woman from the decade, and she is also the symbol of liberty and republic.
Brigitte's measurements were 35 1/2B-19-35 (October 1958).
Brigette is a survivor of breast cancer.
During a visit to Canada, Brigitte condemned seal hunting in the country. She wanted to discuss the issue with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, though her request for the meeting was denied.
Brigitte is also know as BB and was known as "Bebe" in childhood.