A biography for Brigitte Bardothasn’t been written yet.
“I regret nothing.”
“There is a certain dignity to being French.”
“My favourite animals are dogs.”
“I am shocking, impertinent and insolent that's how it is.”
“I knew I had to be the best at something, otherwise I would be nothing. I knew I wanted the world to know about Brigitte Bardot.”
“I never left France for Hollywood nor stashed my money in Switzerland.”
“I only live in the world of animal protection. I speak only of that. I think only of that. I am obsessed.”
“Now, if there was one woman in the world who didn't need publicity, who always had too much publicity, it was me.”
“My mother wanted me to be friends only with children she considered socially suitable.”
“If I upset some notions and went against established rules, that wasn't part of what I wanted to do. It wasn't my goal.”
“I have no private life at all. I am a hunted woman. I can't take a step without being questioned and surrounded.”
“You can be barefoot and have worries.”
“Men are beasts and even beasts don't behave as they do.”
“People have already dirtied my name too much.”
“Do you have to have a reason for loving?”
“I'm not an extremist, you know.”
“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.”
“My country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims.”
“The woman who made those movies, that's not me. She's someone else.”
“A film about my life? But I am not dead.”