Vanessa Paradis Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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?

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I understand those who don't like me.

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

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

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.

I like the idea of reincarnation. I'm not a true believer, but I think the idea is beautiful, that life just doesn't stop. For soulmates, it's the term that I'm a little bit skeptical of. As soon as you put a label on something, it seems like that's it, you're done. Obviously I believe in love and making it last forever, but what's beautiful about that is you don't know if it's going to last forever. When you don't know that this is it, you, I think, enjoy it more.

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

Youth is a question of energy.

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

I am a complete sentimentalist when it comes to clothes. I have so many memories attached to them that I can't throw them out - I don't know where to put everything.

My daughter loves singing above all else.

'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.

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

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.

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

You keep learning all the time.

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

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

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

You have work at being a couple.

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.

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

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

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

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

I mostly want to be friends with my children.

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

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.

[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.

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.

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

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

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

You fall for who the chemistry is with.

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

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