Quotes By Vanessa Paradis

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.

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

I don't like things set in stone.

I mostly want to be friends with my children.

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

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

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

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

I understand those who don't like me.

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

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.

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

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

'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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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 difficult when you want it all.

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

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

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

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