I know it's horrible to have to admit that, but I'm not adult enough to take care of a child.
— Brigitte Bardot
I left a world in which I was a queen to enter one in which I'm a human being.
I have a gruff character.
French courts are backward and politically correct, which is the height of stupidity.
I am a native Frenchwoman and proud of it.
I adore my houses - they're my refuge - but I detest more and more Saint-Tropez where it's impossible to live: invaded by tourists, social evenings, all of which I avoid and which terrorises me.
I wasn't scandalous - I didn't want to be.
I live the life of a farmer. I don't see how I could wear Lagerfeld's designs while feeding my goats. I have respect for Lagerfeld as a man, but I would have so much more for him if he, in turn, respected animals. We do not live in the same world.
Fur is not luxury: it is an industry of death and suffering.
I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can't do without them.
My wild and free side unsettled some, and unwedged others.
Politics disgusts me.
I never knowingly wanted to hurt anybody.
I'm not an extremist, you know.
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.
Animals have never betrayed me. They are an easy prey, as I have been throughout my career. So we feel the same. I love them.
There is a certain dignity to being French.
The woman who made those movies, that's not me. She's someone else.
I don't see how a socialist government can tolerate hunting on horseback. The people who do this are snobs; they're very well-to-do.
A film about my life? But I am not dead.
As for being a little bunny that never says a word, that is truly the opposite of me.
Yes, I've often been threatened by hunters, by horsemeat butchers, and seal murderers... I am still alive!
My favourite animals are dogs.
I belong to no party, and I am militant for no one.
Fur is only of use to the animal that wears it.
It's the decomposition that gets me. You spend your whole life looking after your body. And then you rot away.
When I love, I do it without counting. I give myself entirely. And each time, it is the grand love of my life.
I am shocking, impertinent and insolent that's how it is.
You can be barefoot and have worries.
I am against the Islamisation of France.
I stopped making films to look after animals.
China once again disgusts the world, portraying the image of a cruel, perverted people devoid of any feelings towards animals.
I regret nothing.
I never left France for Hollywood nor stashed my money in Switzerland.
I'm not made to be a mother.
I'm too impatient.
I never had trouble saying what I have to say.
I mourn the fact that my beautiful country has deteriorated in every way.
I don't have the time or the desire to gaze at my navel.
All of my causes, including the most radical, are motivated by the defense of animals.
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.
We must boycott fur coats as well as all the accessories.
People have already dirtied my name too much.
My private life became public.
My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to them for it.
Among Muslims, I think there are some who are very good and some hoodlums, like everywhere.
Now, if there was one woman in the world who didn't need publicity, who always had too much publicity, it was me.
I only live in the world of animal protection. I speak only of that. I think only of that. I am obsessed.
I am really not interested in the cinema.
I have the courage of my convictions.
