Brigitte Bardot

Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot (born September 28, 1934) is a French former actress, singer and fashion model, who later became an animal rights activist. She was an internationally known as a sex symbol during the 1950s and 1960s and referred to by her initials BB.

Quotes

 * I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous, and very unhappy.
 * Said in 1984, when interviewed on the occasion of her 50th birthday — as reported in Vocabulary Dictionary and Workbook (2006) by Mark Phillips, p. 17


 * All these animals are put in cages, never see the sun or grass, and they leave this hell only to go to the slaughter-house. For me intensive breeding is a sign of human degeneration. If one can find that acceptable, then we humans have lost all moral value. … [How long have you been a vegetarian?] Since 1962, when I went on French television to denounce conditions of animal slaughter. That is when I became aware of the horror of factory farming, live transports and the killings of farm animals. I have always been sensitive to animal distress but from then on I refused to be involved in such inhuman industrial deaths.
 * "Brigitte Bardot: 'I became aware of the horror of factory farming". Interview for Primorske novice (November 2009) as reported by European Vegetarian and Animal News Alliance (EVANA) website

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 * What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.


 * I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.


 * Only idiots refuse to change their minds.


 * I accept differences of cultures in all countries. But unfortunately, cows are grown to be eaten, dogs are not. I accept that many people eat beef, but a cultured country does not allow its people to eat dogs.


 * It is impossible to look young unless one is young.


 * To experience the loneliness of soul is the hardest thing in the world.


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