Quotes By Vanessa Paradis

My children are grown now, they are more independent.

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

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

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

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 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?

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

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 fall for who the chemistry is with.

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

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

I understand those who don't like me.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

It's not my style to judge anybody.

My daughter loves singing above all else.

I liked to play dress-up.

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

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.

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

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

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 don't like things set in stone.