Quotes from Brigitte Bardot

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

I know what sin is.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

It's sad to grow old, but nice to ripen.

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

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

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

Death was like love, a romantic escape.

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

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

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

Do you have to have a reason for loving?

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

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

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

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.