Vanessa Paradis Quotes

It's not my style to judge anybody.

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

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

I understand those who don't like me.

I realize how unique my path has been. And I'm thankful for that.

You keep learning all the time.

I mostly want to be friends with my children.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

My children are grown now, they are more independent.

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

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.

Once you're a mom, whether you're kids are next to you or far away from you, you're always a mom.

My daughter loves singing above all else.

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.

No fear ... we are never sure of anything ... fear never prevents [bad things] from happening.

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

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

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

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.

If you're going to play a character who has a deformed face, you should have a deformed face.

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

I don't like things set in stone.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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?

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

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

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

[When you are an actor] it's not a burden to go to work whether it's hard work, whether it's super early work, whatever. So, I go there because I want to be there. I want to do this. That helps a lot.

I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.

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.

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.

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

I'd love to be in a 1910s film - the era between the corsets and losing the corsets.