A biography for Vanessa Paradishasn’t been written yet.
“I don't have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire.”
“You keep learning all the time.”
“I understand those who don't like me.”
“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.”
“It's difficult when you want it all.”
“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.”
“The movies and the parts I'm being offered are becoming better and better.”
“As long as you're fully present in what you're doing at the moment, you're doing it.”
“I don't believe you can say 'forever'; I don't believe it exists.”
“It's not my style to judge anybody.”
“I mostly want to be friends with my children.”
“I don't like things set in stone.”
“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'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.”
“I was for sure not prepared for fame when it happened.”
“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 just like putting outfits together without much thought and seeing what the outcome is.”
“Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down.”
“I liked to play dress-up.”
“It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.”