Vanessa Paradis Quotations

Fear can make all of us do the wrong things sometimes.

Love is the strongest and most fragile thing we have in life.

I realize how unique my path has been. And I'm thankful for that.

Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.

I do sometimes strongly hope that in a past life, my most recent life before this, I was absolutely horrible, evil, hideous. Because otherwise - well, hell, to even things up next time around, I'm going to have to pay for this one, am I not?

The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.

Women are the real superheroes because they're not just working. They have a life and everything.

If your heart is in love, you can do anything.

Sometimes you could be in an unhappy relationship; you are very much in love with someone, but it's making you unhappy and you think things can change and you can work it out.

It's a courageous thing to do something that doesn't have rules or limits.

Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down.

Cafe De Flore speaks of love, its joys, its pains and its dramas - to love and to lose. This story upset me, I was upside-down, in the depths of myself.

My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.

As long as you're fully present in what you're doing at the moment, you're doing it.

I am a complete sentimentalist when it comes to clothes. I have so many memories attached to them that I can't throw anything out.

I just like putting outfits together without much thought and seeing what the outcome is.

You fall for who the chemistry is with.

'Singin' in the Rain' was the one for me. Yeah. I mean, Gene Kelly could just sway and never fall. He'd just sway and sway as he danced.

The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either.

I love the romance of 'let's get married,' but then, when you have it so perfect I mean, I'm more married than anybody can be - we have two kids. Maybe one day, but it's something I can really do without.

How many times do I have to repeat this: my childhood was fantastic.

Well, my type is obviously creative. Creative, with burning eyes and a pretty mouth.

When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.

Who said that artists should sell their soul, expose everything about themselves?

I don't believe you can say 'forever'; I don't believe it exists.

I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.

In the winter I separate, in the summer I marry. It's been 15 years since I've been getting married every year.

The movies and the parts I'm being offered are becoming better and better.

If you have the support of people with a heart and a brain, then you're good.

The red carpet is not something I really know how to work. It intimidates me. I feel very tiny.

The songs from your childhood, when you hear them you get chills all over.

You know, when I eat three peas, I'm pregnant. When I visit a city, I'm buying a house.

I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe.

Nothing is ever for sure, but when something in love doesn't work from the beginning, it's never going to work. Don't push it.

I don't have famous neighbours and if I did, I'd avoid them. I don't live the jet-set.

It amuses me when I'm described as 'chic.'

It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.

People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.

There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.

When I started to record, I could sing in pitch, but that was maybe about it.

I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.

I don't have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire.

I hate, for example, whenever you hear someone say, 'You have work at being a couple.'

I mostly want to be friends with my children.

I was an only child until I was 11 years old, which is when my sister was born. So for 11 years, it was just me.

I was born in a suburb of Paris, and I grew up there until I was 16, so there were always a lot of barbecues, a garden, friends.

I was for sure not prepared for fame when it happened.

I'm super lucky because I come home and I don't have to run errands and clean the house and do all that.

My children are grown now, they are more independent.

Youth is a question of energy.

We [actors] are so lucky to do jobs that fulfill us and make us happy. We don't go to work thinking okay, we're working to put food in the fridge. We are doing that too, but we're working because we love what we do.

[When you are an actor] it's not a burden to go to work whether it's hard work, whether it's super early work, whatever. So, I go there because I want to be there. I want to do this. That helps a lot.

No fear... we are never sure of anything... fear never prevents [bad things] from happening.

I don't like things set in stone.

You have work at being a couple.

Once you're a mom, whether you're kids are next to you or far away from you, you're always a mom.

It's not my style to judge anybody.

My job makes me travel a lot and too often I'm away from my children, but I don't ever stop being a mom inside my head and my heart. There is no higher love than that.

Love starts with a gut feeling, but that gut feeling better be nourished.

I liked to play dress-up.

My daughter loves singing above all else.

I'd love to be in a 1910s film - the era between the corsets and losing the corsets.

If you're going to play a character who has a deformed face, you should have a deformed face.

You keep learning all the time.

I understand those who don't like me.