Best 50 quotes of Vanessa Paradis on MyQuotes

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.

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

Having children changes your behavior. Your personality doesn't change, but you're more cautious of what you say and how you say it to start with-so that already changes things. My mind is not completely mine anymore. I used to be able to concentrate and achieve things. Now I find it much harder to focus, because it just seems that half your brain doesn't belong to you anymore. My kids are still little. Maybe it will change more when they're older, but I doubt it.

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

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

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 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?

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

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

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 like the idea of reincarnation. I'm not a true believer, but I think the idea is beautiful, that life just doesn't stop. For soulmates, it's the term that I'm a little bit skeptical of. As soon as you put a label on something, it seems like that's it, you're done. Obviously I believe in love and making it last forever, but what's beautiful about that is you don't know if it's going to last forever. When you don't know that this is it, you, I think, enjoy it more.

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

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

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

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

It's not my style to judge anybody.

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.

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

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

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

My daughter loves singing above all else.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

'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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

[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.

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. 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.

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

You fall for who the chemistry is with.

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

Youth is a question of energy.