Vanessa Paradis's Quotes

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

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

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

You keep learning all the time.

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

You fall for who the chemistry is with.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I don't like things set in stone.

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

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

I liked to play dress-up.

I love what I do.

I mostly want to be friends with my children.

I understand those who don't like me.

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.

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 was for sure not prepared for fame when it happened.