Brigitte Bardot Quotes

What does it mean, being a woman?

You can be barefoot and have worries.

If I go to a restaurant, other people stare. The meal is ruined.

Nobody has any security in loving me.

I was afraid of not living up to what people expected me to be.

I am not an actress. I can only play me - on and off the screen.

It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.

No more hard work than looking beautiful with eight in the morning until midnight.

If people don't like me, I become very plain.

I have found out that friendship is quite as important as love and it isn't any easier than love.

The world today doesn't please me.

I have the courage of my convictions.

I never get hung up on the past - the memories are too negative.

It is better to be wrong than correct with no desire to be.

I leave before being left. I decide.

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

I don't think when I make love.

Success is unpredictable and fragile.

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

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

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

There is a certain dignity to being French.

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

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

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

I wanted to be myself. Only myself.

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

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

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

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

When I love, I do it without counting. I give myself entirely. And each time, it is the grand love of my life.