Vanessa Paradis Quotes

How many times could you give up on someone you loved?

My boyfriend and I broke up. He wanted to get married and I didn't want him to.

I thought my character definitely was very much in love with him and wanted to be with him, but I think at some point they were going to have to draw the line.

Timing is everything with relationships.

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.

First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

It would be a bit awkward to be with a girlfriend who didn't love what you do.

A lot of people are not meant to be together.

My first heartbreak was extreme. I went to Australia for 10 months when I was at school and told the girl I was madly in love with not to come out to see me - and of course, when I came back, she met me at the airport to tell me she'd met someone else.

I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.

I think love isn't doomed, of course, but in real life, love doesn't always work out.

Marriage is hard.

No one ever wants to be the girl that got her relationship wrong again, but if you let your cynicism take over you risk never falling in love.

I've never been dumped, but I'm sure it will happen.

I tried marriage. Do I advocate it? Yes. Marriage is a wonderful institution, provided you meet the right person and you be the right person.

When I am in a relationship, I give it my 100 per cent. But then, if it doesn't work, you cannot help it. You cannot move ahead with something which isn't working.

I still love my former wife, I won't call her my ex-wife.

I think compassion is important but love fizzles out eventually. But if there is compassion in a relationship, things can always be worked out.

All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than I had wished, but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known.

I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life.

Everybody says love is about finding the person who is right for me and then everything will be fine. But it's not like that. It involves work. An old man tells you this!

Every relationship probably has, at its inception, a hundred things that you could pick on and divert you from it, but the feeling is there. You figure out a way to make it work.