Paradis Quotes

You left pieces of your soul inside me. ~ Lily Paradis

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

[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. ~ Vanessa Paradis

I will not light myself on fire to keep you warm. ~ Lily Paradis

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

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. ~ Vanessa Paradis

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. ~ Vanessa Paradis

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

My heels click on the tile floor, and I feel like a velociraptor. ~ Lily Paradis

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

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

I'm so stupid," I tell her, tears streaming down my face now, blocking my vision.
"You're not stupid. You're just an emotional vampire. ~ Lily Paradis

I love women that have an ease to the way they dress. I think Vanessa Paradis and Alexa Chung do that very well. ~ Ashley Madekwe

The one person who would understand is the one person I can't call. Jesse. I've sworn off Jesse. No good can come from him. From that. He and I are like two hurricanes colliding from separate bodies of water. ~ Lily Paradis

Lauren," Kenzie managed finally as she dramatically fanned herself, and then me. "You did not just meet him last night."
"No really," I said when I could speak. "He kind of swept me off my feet. Literally. ~ Lily Paradis

Be with someone who is going to ruin your lipstick, not your mascara. So, suck it up, dry your tears, and say yes to the rest of your life. ~ Lily Paradis

the funny thing about perception. I will never be able to experience the words the way you will, and you'll never see them the way I do. ~ Lily Paradis

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

You keep learning all the time. ~ Vanessa Paradis

I'm free now instead of the caged wraith I was then. I know how to embrace my dark side, but it won't consume me. I know where I'm going because of where I've been. ~ Lily Paradis

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. ~ Vanessa Paradis

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

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

No one has hit me. My body is fine. It's my soul that aches. It's always been my soul. ~ Lily Paradis

The fructe of all the servise that I serve
Dispaire doth repe, such haples hap have I ;
But tho he have no powre to make me swarve,
Yet by the fire for colde I fele I dye :
In paradis for hunger still I sterve :
And in the flowde for thurste to deth I drye ;
So Tantalus ane I and yn worse payne,
Amyds my helpe, and helples doth remayne. ~ Thomas Wyatt

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

Nope, but somehow, I think I'd move bodies night and day for you, Tate McKenna. ~ Lily Paradis

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

You and your rugged sexuality better scoot over," I whispered. "Unless you want to be responsible for making me pass out on this plane. I'm not sure that flight attendant knows CPR."
"It's okay," he said, lowering his lips all the way to my ear so they touched my skin when he spoke. "I'm really good at mouth-to-mouth."
Holy shit. ~ Lily Paradis

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

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

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

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. ~ Vanessa Paradis

All I knew was that I couldn't have him right now. It was impossible. Could I have him in a year? Two years? Five years? Ten years? I didn't know. All I knew was that although the universe was pushing us together, it was also pushing us apart. ~ Lily Paradis

I don't want to know more about her; don't want to know her weaknesses or calculate them. What I have is not for her; he gives me to understand she would not know what to do with it; it's not her fault. --One is married and there is nothing to be done.-- Yet he has said to me, I would marry you if I could, meaning: I want very much to marry you. I offended him a bit by not being moved. It's other things he's said that are the text I'm living by. I really do not know if I want any form of public statement, status, code; such as marriage. There's nothing more private and personal than the life of a mistress, is there? Outwardly, no one even knows we are responsible to each other....

'This is the creature that has never been'--he told me a line of poetry about that unicorn, translated from German. A mythical creature. Un paradis inventé. ~ Nadine Gordimer

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

It's not my style to judge anybody. ~ Vanessa Paradis

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

We're like oil and water, only someone put the oil on the bottom and then dumped the water in, so I'm forever trying to get over him while simultaneously going through him as the pieces of me try to connect on the other side. ~ Lily 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. ~ Vanessa Paradis

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. ~ Vanessa Paradis

'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. ~ Vanessa Paradis

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. ~ Vanessa Paradis

Did you just compare our relationship to the plague? ~ Lily Paradis

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

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

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

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. ~ Vanessa Paradis

I don't like things set in stone. ~ Vanessa Paradis

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

Nope," I said, closing my eyes. I should probably go back to sleep. That sounded like a good idea. "I'm pretty sure it's Dean's rugged sexuality interfering with the machines. ~ Lily Paradis

I've won, and Hayden is my weapon. ~ Lily Paradis

I was always going to do terrible things because it was in my nature. ~ Lily Paradis

Who drops a postcard in someone's lap? I'm not sure who I think I am. Carmen Sandiego? That girl from Serendipity? ~ Lily Paradis

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

My children are grown now, they are more independent. ~ Vanessa Paradis

Si vous m'accordez que l'homme a une âme - je veux que les bêtes en aient, toutes les bêtes - à commencer par le pourceau pour finir à la fourmi, aux animaux microscopiques. Si l'homme est libre les animaux sont libres, ils seront comme lui récompensés ou punis, que d'âmes diverses, que d'enfers, que de paradis eût dit Voltaire - cette réflexion est humiliante - elle conduit au matérialisme et au nihilisme.

(If you grant me that man has a soul, I like to think that animals have souls, too-all animals, from the pig to the ant, even the microscopic animals. If man is free, animals are free; like him they will be rewarded or punished. So many different souls, so many hells, so many heavens, Voltaire would have said. This reflection is humiliating. It leads to materialism or to nihilism.) ~ Gustave Flaubert

I understand those who don't like me. ~ Vanessa Paradis

My daughter loves singing above all else. ~ Vanessa Paradis

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

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

They say that you and your soul mate have a string connecting your hearts - not a literal string, but an invisible one. ~ Lily Paradis

He was wearing glasses. Who was he, Clark Kent? No one looked this good all the time. It just wasn't possible. ~ Lily Paradis

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. ~ Vanessa Paradis

I was for sure not prepared for fame when it happened. ~ Vanessa Paradis

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

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

I'm so proud of you," I said over her shoulder. "I'm so proud of you that I'm going to stop at the store on my way home."
Callie pulled back. "Why?"
"Because," I told her. "I'm going to bake you a cake."
"You suck at baking," she said.
This was true.
"Okay," I said, "I'm going to buy you a cake."
"Cool. ~ Lily Paradis

They say scars don't hurt, but that's a lie. I'm not sure what hurts worse - the ones you can see or the ones so far beneath that they'll never really heal. ~ Lily Paradis

I mostly want to be friends with my children. ~ Vanessa Paradis

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

I look up into the sky to see all the drops falling on the ground before they make contact. I realize the drops have more in common with me than I think. We're all just falling until we're not falling, and we don't really have a choice where we land. ~ Lily Paradis

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. ~ Vanessa Paradis

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

I never wanted to kiss anyone more than I did when Dean Powell opened his beautiful, sleepy eyes and looked at me. ~ Lily Paradis

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? ~ Vanessa Paradis