Bardot: "I never do anything by chance."

Bardot: "I wanted to be myself. Only myself."

Bardot: "The world today doesn't please me."

Bardot: "Nobody has any security in loving me."

Bardot: "I donʼt like deception. I wouldn't deceive people. Hypocrisy and deception are for people that arenʼt free."

Bardot: "Only idiots refuse to change their minds."

Bardot: "I have my own moral. There are a lot of things I donʼt do because I donʼt feel like to."

Bardot: "Thereʼs no duty that could be compared to love, Iʼd never put any duty before love! And I mean any kind of love. I have no sense of duty, at all. But I do things by love."

Bardot: "In a democracy one must have the right to express oneself and that's what I do, even if it displeases."

Bardot: "I don't think when I make love."

Bardot: "I donʼt regret anything. I'd probably have a lot of things to make up for, but I don't regret anything."

Bardot: "The man to whom I could be faithful is so important in my life, that if he doesn't make sure that I don't want to cheat on him, he's a fool."

Bardot: "I say what I think and I think what I say."

Bardot: "I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life."

Bardot: "Politics disgusts me."

Bardot: "I tried to make myself as pretty as possible and even then I thought I was ugly. I found it madly difficult to go out, to show myself."

Bardot: "Having leisure is the most important thing in the world."

Bardot: "My wild and free side unsettled some, and unwedged others."

Bardot: "I'm everybody's. People make me say things that I don't say, do things that I don't do. I feel that I'm not so free anymore. I wish people would stop talking about me. An actress, before anything else, is a woman. And I'd like to live like a woman. Arletty said 'It's too hard for this little one', and I think she's right, cause she knows how it is, and it's kinda hard."

Bardot: "I am not an actress. I can only play me - on and off the screen."

Bardot: "I leave before being left. I decide."

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

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

Bardot: "I am really not interested in the cinema. I loathed it when I started six years ago, and I don't enjoy it even now."

Bardot: "I'm not made to be a mother."

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

Bardot: "I am greatly misunderstood by politically correct idiots."

Bardot: "It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be."