Brigitte Bardot

Brigitte Bardot

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Biography

Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot, often referred to by her initials B.B., was a French actress, singer, model, and animal rights activist. She became one of the best-known symbols of the sexual revolution and gained international fame for portraying characters associated with hedonistic lifestyles.

"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."

Brigitte Bardot

"Do you have to have a reason for loving?"

Brigitte Bardot

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

Brigitte Bardot

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

Brigitte Bardot

"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

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

Brigitte Bardot

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

Brigitte Bardot

"Only idiots refuse to change their minds."

Brigitte Bardot

"I have the courage of my convictions."

Brigitte Bardot

"Death was like love, a romantic escape."

Brigitte Bardot

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

Brigitte Bardot

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

Brigitte Bardot

"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

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

Brigitte Bardot

"Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras?"

Brigitte Bardot

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

Brigitte Bardot

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

Brigitte Bardot

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

Brigitte Bardot

"Politics disgusts me."

Brigitte Bardot

"Films have never shown the kind of relationship that can exist between two women."

Brigitte Bardot

"Death was like love, a romantic escape."

Brigitte Bardot

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

Brigitte Bardot

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

Brigitte Bardot

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

Brigitte Bardot

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

Brigitte Bardot