Vanessa Paradis quotes:

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

It's not my style to judge anybody.

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

My daughter loves singing above all else.

I liked to play dress-up.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

My children are grown now, they are more independent.

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

You fall for who the chemistry is with.

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

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 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?

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

I understand those who don't like me.

[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.

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

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

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

I don't like things set in stone.

I mostly want to be friends with my children.

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

I was for sure not prepared for fame when it happened.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

'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.

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

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.

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

Women are the real superheroes because they're not just working. They have a life and everything. I'm super lucky because I come home and I don't have to run errands and clean the house and do all that. Some women have all of this to do, too. And they manage and they live longer. How we do that, I don't know.

You have work at being a couple.

You keep learning all the time.

Youth is a question of energy.