Edith Piaf Quotes in La Vie en Rose (2007)

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: I can't? Then what's the point of being Edith Piaf?

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.

Raymond Asso: You're an immense artist!

Edith Piaf: I'm wearing high heels.

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.