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

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

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

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

You have a heart and you have a soul and you have me. You're not as awful as you think you are. You're just not the same as everyone else. — Lily Paradis

You'll never see my favourite film on any screen in the world," I replied with a smile. "Not even here in the Cinema Paradis — Nicolas Barreau

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

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

The second our eyes met, I knew something has changed. Kenzie was right. He looked at me like he could see into my very soul, and it felt as if I couldn't breathe. — Lily 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

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

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

I love you, Lauren Lindsay. I want to kiss you more than I want to breathe, but I don't want you to think you're just another notch in my belt. You're not. You're it for me. I want you to have everything and I want to make sure I'm good enough for you. You deserve more than who I was. — Lily Paradis

I hate this version of myself because although I think I have all the power, I have none. I am not rational here. — Lily Paradis

My heels click on the tile floor, and I feel like a velociraptor. — 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

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

[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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You fall for who the chemistry is with. — Vanessa Paradis

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

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

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

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

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

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 will not light myself on fire to keep you warm. — Lily 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

I don't like things set in stone. — 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 could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals. — Vanessa Paradis

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I liked to play dress-up. — Vanessa Paradis

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

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

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

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

You have work at being a couple. — Vanessa Paradis

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

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

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

I desire the things that destroy me in the end, — Lily Paradis

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

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

You keep learning all the time. — Vanessa Paradis

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

I'm about as perfect as a shattered mirror, — Lily Paradis

Youth is a question of energy. — 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 don't have famous neighbours and if I did, I'd avoid them. I don't live the jet-set. — 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

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