Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French musician Vanessa Paradis.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Vanessa Chantal Paradis is a French singer, model, and actress. Paradis became a child star at the age of 14 with the international success of her single "Joe le taxi" (1987). At age 18, she was awarded France's highest honours as both a singer and an actress with the Prix Romy Schneider and the César Award for Most Promising Actress for Jean-Claude Brisseau's Noce Blanche, as well as the Victoires de la Musique for Best Female Singer for her album Variations sur le même t'aime. Her most notable films also include Élisa (1995) alongside Gérard Depardieu, Witch Way Love (1997) opposite Jean Reno (1997), Une chance sur deux (1998) co-starring with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Alain Delon, Girl on the Bridge (1999), Heartbreaker (2010) and Café de Flore (2011). Her tribute to Jeanne Moreau at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival during which they sang in duet "Le Tourbillon" became notable in French popular culture. In 2022, she was nominated for the Molière Award for Best Actress for her performance in the play Maman.
In the winter I separate, in the summer I marry. It's been 15 years since I've been getting married every year.
Women are the real superheroes because they're not just working. They have a life and everything.
It's difficult when you want it all.
When I started to record, I could sing in pitch, but that was maybe about it.
I hate, for example, whenever you hear someone say, 'You have work at being a couple.'
If your heart is in love, you can do anything.
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 understand those who don't like me.
It amuses me when I'm described as 'chic.'
Who said that artists should sell their soul, expose everything about themselves?
The movies and the parts I'm being offered are becoming better and better.
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 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 don't have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire.
My children are grown now, they are more independent.
Fear can make all of us do the wrong things sometimes.
'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.
It's a courageous thing to do something that doesn't have rules or limits.
The red carpet is not something I really know how to work. It intimidates me. I feel very tiny.
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.
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 realize how unique my path has been. And I'm thankful for that.
Well, my type is obviously creative. Creative, with burning eyes and a pretty mouth.
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'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.
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.
There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.
It's not my style to judge anybody.
I don't like things set in stone.
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 could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.
I liked to play dress-up.
As long as you're fully present in what you're doing at the moment, you're doing it.
I don't have famous neighbours and if I did, I'd avoid them. I don't live the jet-set.
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.
When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
My daughter loves singing above all else.
I just like putting outfits together without much thought and seeing what the outcome is.
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.
It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.
You know, when I eat three peas, I'm pregnant. When I visit a city, I'm buying a house.
Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.
I'm super lucky because I come home and I don't have to run errands and clean the house and do all that.
If you have the support of people with a heart and a brain, then you're good.
The songs from your childhood, when you hear them you get chills all over.
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.
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.
I mostly want to be friends with my children.
How many times do I have to repeat this: my childhood was fantastic.
Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down.
Love is the strongest and most fragile thing we have in life.
You keep learning all the time.
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 for sure not prepared for fame when it happened.
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.
No fear... we are never sure of anything... fear never prevents [bad things] from happening.
Youth is a question of energy.
Love starts with a gut feeling, but that gut feeling better be nourished.