Vanessa Paradis Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

I don't have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire. — Vanessa Paradis

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. — Vanessa Paradis

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

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

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

It's difficult when you want it all. — Vanessa Paradis

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You fall for who the chemistry is with. — 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

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

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

My daughter loves singing above all else. — Vanessa Paradis

My job makes me travel a lot and too often I'm away from my children, but I don't ever stop being a mom inside my head and my heart. There is no higher love than that. — Vanessa Paradis

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

My children are grown now, they are more independent. — Vanessa 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

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

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

I liked to play dress-up. — Vanessa Paradis

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We [actors] are so lucky to do jobs that fulfill us and make us happy. We don't go to work thinking okay, we're working to put food in the fridge. We are doing that too, but we're working because we love what we do. — Vanessa Paradis

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

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

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

Youth is a question of energy. — Vanessa Paradis

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

You keep learning all the time. — Vanessa Paradis

I mostly want to be friends with my children. — 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 understand those who don't like me. — Vanessa Paradis

Love starts with a gut feeling, but that gut feeling better be nourished. — Vanessa Paradis

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

You have work at being a couple. — Vanessa 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

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

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