Quotes By Vanessa Paradis

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?

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.

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

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.

You fall for who the chemistry is with.

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

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.

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

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.

You keep learning all the time.

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.

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

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

My daughter loves singing above all else.

I liked to play dress-up.

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

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

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.

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.