Brigitte Bardot (b.1934) is a French actress who starred in 47 films. She was one of the most iconic faces, models, and actors of the ’50s and ’60s.
Born in Paris, Bardot was discovered by a magazine editor as a teenager. After a promising initial career as a ballerina and a model, Bardot turned to film and made her screen début in Le Trou Normand (1952; Crazy for Love) at the age of 18.
The cult film Et Dieu … Crea La Femme (1956; And God Created Woman,) directed by her first husband Roger Vadim launched Bardot’s reputation as an international sex symbol. Her love of music led to several records in the ’60s and ’70s.
Bardot announced her retirement just before she turned 40 and has since devoted her energies to campaign for animal rights and the cause of endangered animal species.
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I leave before being left. I decide.
—Brigitte Bardot
Topics: Marriage, Love
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
—Brigitte Bardot
Topics: Maturity
It is better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be.
—Brigitte Bardot
Topics: Marriage, Faithfulness
I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.
—Brigitte Bardot
Topics: Tourism, Travel
Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
—Brigitte Bardot
Topics: Feminism, Women, Unhappiness
I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous, and very unhappy.
—Brigitte Bardot
Topics: Unhappiness, Appearance
Men are beasts and even beasts don’t behave as they do.
—Brigitte Bardot
Topics: Men
On the outside one is a star. But in reality, one is completely alone, doubting everything. To experience this loneliness of soul is the hardest thing in the world.
—Brigitte Bardot
Topics: Opportunities, Reality
I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn’t want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.
—Brigitte Bardot
Topics: Dying, Death
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