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

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.

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.'

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

My daughter loves singing above all else.

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.

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

You keep learning all the time.

'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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 mostly want to be friends with my children.

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

You have work at being a couple.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.