Vanessa Paradis famous quotes

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

#Going To Work

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

#Love Is #Fragile Things #Strongest

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

#Real #Superhero

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

#Ocean #Life Is Like #Life Is

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

#Terrible

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

#Garden #Paris #Barbecue

'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

#Rain #Fall #Mean

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

#Patience #Inspiration #Want

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

#Girl #Girlfriend #Essence

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

#Atheism #No Fear

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

#Chic

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

#Love You #Heart

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

#Artist #Soul #Said

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

#Limits #Courageous

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

#Space #Lucky #Enough

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

#Judging #Style

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

#Eye #Creative #Mouths

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

#Nice #Clothes #Creating

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

#Art #Might #Form

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

#Queens #Want #Imbeciles

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

#Children #Years #Only Child

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

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

#Children #Want #My Children

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

#Sometimes

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

#Long #Moments

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

#Past #Evil #Pay

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

#Fall #Chemistry

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

#Beautiful #Song #Soulmate

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

#Childhood #Fantastic

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

#Thinking #Unhappy #Sometimes

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

#Pain #Drama #Joy

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

#Unique #Path #Realizing

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

#Memories #Clothes

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

#Thinking #Desire #Recipes

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

#Stones

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

#Together #Outcomes #Outfits

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

#Jet #Neighbour

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

#Believe #Forever

I liked to play dress-up.
-- Vanessa Paradis

#Play #Dresses

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

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

#Couple #Hate #Example

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

#Red #Tiny #Intimidating

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

#Becoming

You keep learning all the time.
-- Vanessa Paradis

#Keep Learning

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

#Song #Childhood #Chill

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

#Records

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

#Love Your Life #Natural #Easier

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

#Heart #People #Support

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

#Fame #Prepared

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

#Mean #Kids #Two

My daughter loves singing above all else.
-- Vanessa Paradis

#Mother #Daughter #Singing

Youth is a question of energy.
-- Vanessa Paradis

#Energy #Youth

You have work at being a couple.
-- Vanessa Paradis

#Couple

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

#Cities #House #Buying

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

#Summer #Winter #Years

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

#Running #Home #House