Quotes By Vanessa Paradis

I understand those who don't like me.

I mostly want to be friends with my children.

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

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

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

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

'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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

It's difficult when you want it all.

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

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

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

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.

The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either.

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

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

My children are grown now, they are more independent.

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?