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Brigitte Bardot
French
Actress
About the author
Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot,
French
Actress
#Women
It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.
Brigitte Bardot,
French
Actress
If this fame, which people call my lucky break, were to stop tomorrow, I shouldn't care.
Brigitte Bardot,
French
Actress
#People
#Fame
#Care
#Tomorrow
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.
Brigitte Bardot,
French
Actress
#Love
#Man
#Impression
If I go to a restaurant, other people stare. The meal is ruined.
Brigitte Bardot,
French
Actress
#People
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.
Brigitte Bardot,
French
Actress
#Day
#Family
I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film.
Brigitte Bardot,
French
Actress
#Acting
#Film
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
Brigitte Bardot,
French
Actress
#Old
I never do anything by chance.
Brigitte Bardot,
French
Actress
#Chance
Percentages are why I am rich.
Brigitte Bardot,
French
Actress
I started out as a lousy actress and have remained one.
Brigitte Bardot,
French
Actress
It's better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be.
Brigitte Bardot,
French
Actress
James Stewart was so kind and considerate and had such personal integrity.
Brigitte Bardot,
French
Actress
#Integrity
Men are beasts and even beasts don't behave as they do.
Brigitte Bardot,
French
Actress
#Men
My soul is not my own any more. I cannot live like I want to. I am going to give up films.
Brigitte Bardot,
French
Actress
#Want
#Soul
People are forever finding something wrong with you.
Brigitte Bardot,
French
Actress
#People
#Wrong
They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself.
Brigitte Bardot,
French
Actress
#May
#Peace
Vadim changed my mind about acting. Vadim was the only man who was certain I had something special to offer.
Brigitte Bardot,
French
Actress
#Acting
#Man
#Mind
Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands.
Brigitte Bardot,
French
Actress
#Husband
What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
Brigitte Bardot,
French
Actress
#Old
#Age
#Lady
What does it mean, being a woman?
Brigitte Bardot,
French
Actress
#Being
#Woman
I know very few Americans, though I like the way they think. They think big.
Brigitte Bardot,
French
Actress
#Americans
Only idiots refuse to change their minds.
Brigitte Bardot,
French
Actress
#Change
#Idiots
I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.
Brigitte Bardot,
French
Actress
#Tourists
I know what sin is.
Brigitte Bardot,
French
Actress
#Sin
Do you have to have a reason for loving?
Brigitte Bardot,
French
Actress
#Reason
Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
Brigitte Bardot,
French
Actress
#Age
Fame had brought me so much unhappiness.
Brigitte Bardot,
French
Actress
#Fame
#Unhappiness
Film-making was not at all what I had expected.
Brigitte Bardot,
French
Actress
#Film
Films have never shown the kind of relationship that can exist between two women.
Brigitte Bardot,
French
Actress
#Women
Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras?
Brigitte Bardot,
French
Actress
#Marriage
I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand.
Brigitte Bardot,
French
Actress
#Luxury
I am 30, but there are things about me that are still 15.
Brigitte Bardot,
French
Actress
I leave before being left. I decide.
Brigitte Bardot,
French
Actress
#Being
I am all right when I work. I am not superficial and I am not ungrateful.
Brigitte Bardot,
French
Actress
#Right
#Work
A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
Brigitte Bardot,
French
Actress
#Life
#Will
#Eternity
I am no mother, and I won't be one.
Brigitte Bardot,
French
Actress
#Mother
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.
Brigitte Bardot,
French
Actress
#Joy
#Pregnancy
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.
Brigitte Bardot,
French
Actress
#Now
#Years
#Cinema
I can't do the same thing every night, the same gestures... it's like putting on dirty panties every day.
Brigitte Bardot,
French
Actress
#Day
#Night
I don't think when I make love.
Brigitte Bardot,
French
Actress
#Love
I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.
Brigitte Bardot,
French
Actress
#Youth
#Men
#Experience
#Wisdom
#Beauty
#Animals
I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.
Brigitte Bardot,
French
Actress
#Famous
I have no private life at all. I am a hunted woman. I can't take a step without being questioned and surrounded.
Brigitte Bardot,
French
Actress
#Life
#Being
#Woman
I have not always loved wisely, but I was young.
Brigitte Bardot,
French
Actress
I have to live with both my selves as best I may.
Brigitte Bardot,
French
Actress
#May
I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.
Brigitte Bardot,
French
Actress
#Society
#Marriage