Quotes from Vanessa Paradis


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


My children are grown now, they are more independent.


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.


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.


My daughter loves singing above all else.


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


I mostly want to be friends with my children.



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


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


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


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.


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


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


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.


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


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


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