- American journalist: If you were to give advice to a woman, what would it be?
- Edith Piaf: Love.
- American journalist: To a young girl?
- Edith Piaf: Love.
- American journalist: To a child?
- Edith Piaf: Love.
- [after hearing "Je ne regrette rien" for the first time]
- Edith Piaf: You're marvelous! This is exactly what I've been waiting for! It's incredible! It's me! That's my life, it's me.
- Edith Piaf: Americans want beauties, not me. I'm not the Parisian bombshell they expected. Can you see me as a chorus girl? Where's my feather up the ass? They think I'm sad, they're dumb. I don't connect to them.
- Edith Piaf: [to Marcel] You are my champion. I want you to be mine for life. Nothing existed before you. It's all gone.
- [kisses him]
- Edith Piaf: Stay with me.
- Edith Piaf: In three months... that's right, in April, I'll be a hit at the Olympic. With a full house, we'll be flush.
- Louise: Edith, your liver cells are not functioning normally. You've been ill. You need rest. It's serious.
- Edith Piaf: I'm just 44. I'm not in the tomb yet.