Vanessa Paradis Quotes & Sayings

#1. [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.

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

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

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

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

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#6. 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.

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#7. '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.

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

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

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

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#11. It's not my style to judge anybody.

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

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

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

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#15. Youth is a question of energy.

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#16. 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.

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#17. You keep learning all the time.

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

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

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

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#21. 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.

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

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#23. 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?

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

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

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#26. 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.

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#27. 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.

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#28. 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.

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

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

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#31. I liked to play dress-up.

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

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

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

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#35. My children are grown now, they are more independent.

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

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

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#38. 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.

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

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

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

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#42. 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.

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#43. 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.

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#44. 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.

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#45. I understand those who don't like me.

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

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#47. 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.

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