Vanessa Quotes

My dad is a big extrovert - he's a doctor - but he always loved [William] Shakespeare and he took us to tons of theater.

At the same time, [princess Margaret] had a fragility and an insecurity in who she was and her position, because her sister had always got the education ever since David [Edward VIII] abdicated.

[Princess Margaret] was always trying to radicalize things.

I watched her do speeches, but the only footage we could find of [princess] Margaret was archive footage, which was of her public presentation of herself.

[Queen Elizabeth] is just the granny queen! She's our granny queen who shakes people's hands!

Broadway is really my life.

In this world we've created Where this place that we live in a blink of an eye the darkness slips in Love lights the world Unites the love that's for eternity.

My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.

Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she's about 5 feet - and very mighty. And she would control her kids a lot by giving them the eye, or the stare.

I go out and salsa with friends, especially in the summertime. Now that's incredible cardio!

I'm not shooting every day of the week, which allows me to fly home to be with my kids for the weekends. That's how I keep it moving.

There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you're a kid.

And at 19, you think you rule the world, and you can control things. And a lot of times, you don't.

And when people give me their word, I listen to them.

Cause there was a time when all I did was wish You'd tell me this was love. It's not the way I hoped Or how I planned But somehow it's enough.

Eugene McCarthy is definitely an inspiration to me as a Democrat and as someone going to the university. It is definitely important to me.

And when the storms came through They found me and you Back together And when the sun would shine It was yours and mine. Yours and mine forever.

I am an Air Force brat - that's the terminology they use for military kids who are traveling constantly.

I went to eight different schools my first nine years of school.

My whole plan in my head has always been, if I go a year without acting, it's time to go home; it's time to go back to Montreal.

I love playing characters, so I'm always telling my agents, 'Don't worry if the character description is something you think I'm not. Let me try to be that person.

Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.

But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.

But I don't think I've grown up to be a damaged adult.

Music is about the performance.

But I don't mind, I'm a bit of a touring animal. When I'm on tour that is the greatest thrill for me, playing to a live audience.

When I hit my 20s, I took a chill pill and relaxed because throughout my teens I was churning out an album a year. It was a treadmill of work then recording, promoting and touring.

To even get to the Olympics, I have to qualify for the 2013 World Championships and the standard is high. I know I am always going to be a few points behind the top guys.

People find it hard to understand how I can risk ruining my career as a musician by injuring myself on the slopes, but I've always been a tomboy.

All the time I'm changing as an artist and as a person.

I don't mind about the boos from the audience.

For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my Mom said I didn't have time for university.

I found out I'd been signing my name wrong. You know, like with the alphabet they teach you in preschool. But I think I've got it right now.

I'm very obsessed with 'The Real Housewives' franchise. It's a bad obsession.

Lizzy Weiss is such a great writer, and she really writes for the performances.

I love Vegas. It's like going to Disneyland.

I don't know any woman who doesn't have an anxiety attack about wearing a bathing suit.

I don't like things set in stone.

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

It's not my style to judge anybody.

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

You fall for who the chemistry is with.

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

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.

I liked to play dress-up.

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.

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.

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

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.

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