Quotes from Vanessa Paradis

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

My children are grown now, they are more independent.

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

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

'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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

It's not my style to judge anybody.

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.

I mostly want to be friends with my children.

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

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

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 like things set in stone.

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

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.

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