Brigitte Bardot Quotes

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

Brigitte Bardot

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

Brigitte Bardot

If I could do anything about the way people behave towards each other, I would, but since I can't I'll stick to the animals.

Brigitte Bardot

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

Brigitte Bardot

I am really a cat transformed into a woman.... I purr. I scratch. And sometimes I bite.

Brigitte Bardot

I was born with a love of animals. I didn't have any during my childhood because we were at war and life in Paris was very difficult.

Brigitte Bardot

Reporter: Are you a feminist?
Bardot: No, I hate feminism. I am a masculinist.

Brigitte Bardot

A huge number of people are insensitive to the suffering of animals, for which they have a deep contempt.

Brigitte Bardot

Man has not evolved. He has stayed fundamentally cruel and barbaric, even if he thinks he has moved on.

Brigitte Bardot

When asked if she has any hope for animals in the future:

No. The industrialization of the rearing and death of animals takes away all my hope of it ever improving.

Brigitte Bardot

Brigitte Bardot

Brigitte Bardot

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Born: September 28, 1934

Died: December 28, 2025 (aged 91)

Bio: Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot was a French actress, singer and fashion model, who later became an animal rights activist. She was one of the best known sex symbols of the 1950s and 1960s and was widely referred to by her initials.

Known for:

And God Created Woman (1956)
Contempt (1963)
Viva Maria! (1965)
Love Is My Profession (1958)
Don Juan, or If Don Juan Were a Woman (1973)

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