Quotes from Brigitte Bardot

I wasn't scandalous - I didn't want to be.

No matter whether it's someone from the political left or right, we just need a voice to stand up and defend animal rights.

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

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

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

Fur is not luxury: it is an industry of death and suffering.

It's better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be.

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

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

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

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

I really am a cat transformed into a woman.

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.

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

I don't feel old or used up, and I don't have time to waste thinking about aging, because I live only for my cause.

The world today doesn't please me.

I don't think I was a good comedian.

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

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

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

I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can't do without them.

Fur is only of use to the animal that wears it.

I am greatly misunderstood by politically correct idiots.

I have the courage of my convictions.