Vanessa Paradis Quotes

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.

You keep learning all the time.

[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.

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

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

'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 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?

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

You have work at being a couple.

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

Having children changes your behavior. Your personality doesn't change, but you're more cautious of what you say and how you say it to start with-so that already changes things. My mind is not completely mine anymore. I used to be able to concentrate and achieve things. Now I find it much harder to focus, because it just seems that half your brain doesn't belong to you anymore. My kids are still little. Maybe it will change more when they're older, but I doubt it.

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

I liked to play dress-up.

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

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. I'm super lucky because I come home and I don't have to run errands and clean the house and do all that. Some women have all of this to do, too. And they manage and they live longer. How we do that, I don't know.

Youth is a question of energy.

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

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

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'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.

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

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.