"A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you."

"I leave before being left. I decide."

"French courts are backward and politically correct, which is the height of stupidity."

"I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand."

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

"I know it's horrible to have to admit that, but I'm not adult enough to take care of a child."

"I am a native Frenchwoman and proud of it."

"It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen."

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

"I left a world in which I was a queen to enter one in which I'm a human being."

"I don't have the time or the desire to gaze at my navel."

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

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

"Fame had brought me so much unhappiness."

"I am not finding pregnancy much of a joy. I am afraid of childbirth, but I am afraid I can't find a way of avoiding it."

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

"I have not always loved wisely, but I was young."

"I have no private life at all. I am a hunted woman. I can't take a step without being questioned and surrounded."

"I know what sin is."

"It is better to be Unfaithful, than Faithful without wanting to be."

"Only idiots refuse to change their minds."

"I never do anything by chance."

"I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film."

"James Stewart was so kind and considerate and had such personal integrity."

"My soul is not my own any more. I cannot live like I want to. I am going to give up films."

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

"Romania will not be able to evolve if it continues to take cruel decisions against sensitive creatures, which are under the protection of European law."

"I only want to protect animals from barbarous, cruel, inhuman and backward rituals."

"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."

"People are forever finding something wrong with you."

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

"I would like, before I die, to see the changes I've always fought for being made. If not, my life will have been worth nothing."

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

"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 don't think I was a good comedian."

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

"I never get hung up on the past - the memories are too negative."

"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."

"I was afraid of not living up to what people expected me to be."

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

"I can no longer walk. I can no longer swim. But I'm lucky when I see how animals suffer."

"When you're thirty you're old enough to know better,but still young enough to go ahead and do it."

"I am typically French."

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

"I regret nothing."

"I am really not interested in the cinema."

"China once again disgusts the world, portraying the image of a cruel, perverted people devoid of any feelings towards animals."

"We have to convince the people of Bucharest, who are dog lovers, to treat dogs like they treat their children and not just let them roam the streets."

"I stopped making films to look after animals."

"I'm not an extremist, you know."