Quotes By Vanessa Paradis

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

Women are the real superheroes because they're not just working. They have a life and everything.

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

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.

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 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.

It's difficult when you want it all.

I'm super lucky because I come home and I don't have to run errands and clean the house and do all that.

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

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.

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

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

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

My children are grown now, they are more independent.

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

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?

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

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

I understand those who don't like me.

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

You fall for who the chemistry is with.

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.

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

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

'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.

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