Children of Paradise Quotes

Children of Paradise is a television program that was first aired in 1970 . Children of Paradise ended its run in 1970.

It features Raymond Borderie as producer, Maurice Thiriet in charge of musical score, and Roger Hubert as head of cinematography.

Children of Paradise is recorded in French and originally aired in France. Each episode of Children of Paradise is 190 minutes long.

The cast includes: Pierre Brasseur as Frederick, Marcel Herrand as Pierre-François Lacenaire, Marcel Pérès as Director, Arletty as Garance, and Pierre Renoir as Jéricho.

Children of Paradise Quotes

Pierre Brasseur as Frederick

• (Pierre Brasseur) "You can't abandon me all alone on the Boulevard of Crime. When will I see you again?"
• (Arletty) "Soon, perhaps. Chance will tell."
• (Pierre Brasseur) "Oh, Paris is so big."
• (Arletty) "Paris is small for those who share so great a passion as ours."

• (Pierre Brasseur) "Where did you go? Where did he take you? That nabob. To India?"
• (Arletty) "I did go to India. But not for long. I lived in England most of the time. And Scotland."
• (Pierre Brasseur) "Is Scotland beautiful?"
• (Arletty) "Yes -- but it's so far away. I love only Paris."

• (Pierre Brasseur) "To your health, Baptiste. And to yours, friends. Tonight you drank with Julius Caesar. Julius Caesar or another. Charles the Bold, Attila, Henri IV, Ravaillac. Yes, I know it. It's my destiny to revive the giants of this earth. They played their parts. It's my turn now. Let me have my chance. Rise, Julius Caesar. Frederick is before you. I'll dust him off and cast his shadow across the boards. He'll live again to astonish the world once more. Thanks to me."

• (Pierre Brasseur) "You smiled. Don't deny it. You smiled. Marvelous. Life is beautiful. And you're just as beautiful."

• (Pierre Brasseur) "I'm dying of silence, like others die of hunger and thirst."

• (Pierre Brasseur) "Jealousy belongs to all if a woman belongs to none."

• (Édouard, Count de Montray) "Monsieur, you play the bloodthirsty brute so naturally."
• (Pierre Brasseur) "You're too kind. I merely played him as Shakespeare wrote him, as naturally as possible."
• (Édouard, Count de Montray) "A peculiar fellow, this Monsieur Shakespeare. I hear he made his literary debut as a butcher's apprentice."
• (Pierre Brasseur) "Why not?"
• (Édouard, Count de Montray) "Which would explain the bestial nature of his plays and his popularity among dockers and carters."
• (Pierre Brasseur) "And kings."

• (Pierre Brasseur) "First, my name, Frederick. Now tell me yours."
• (Arletty) "They call me Garance."
• (Pierre Brasseur) "Garance. How lovely."
• (Arletty) "It' a flower."
• (Pierre Brasseur) "A red flower, like your lips."

• (Pierre Brasseur) "It's all nonsense, fantasy, air. What I like is reality."
• (Pierre Brasseur) "Only two acts, but well made. Compliments to the authors."

• (Pierre Brasseur) "Words and phrases leave you cold. You tell your story without speaking. And you do it so well. You really astonished me. Your legs speak, your hands answer. A glance, a shrug, a step forward, back and they understand up in the Gods."
• (Baptiste) "They understand, though they are poor. I'm like them. I love them, I know them. Their lives are small, but their dreams are vast."

• (Pierre Brasseur) "This can't be happening to me. This is absurd."
• (Arletty) "What is it?"
• (Pierre Brasseur) "I think I'm jealous. I don't know. I've never felt anything like this. It's insidious, unpleasant. It infects your heart. You reason, but your reason fails you."

• (Pierre Brasseur) "Is your door locked, my love?"
• (Arletty) "I'm not afraid of thieves. What's there to steal?"

Arletty as Garance

• (Arletty) "You're shaking. Are you cold?"
• (Baptiste) "I'm shaking because I'm happy. Happy because you're here, near me. I love you. Garance, do you love me?"
• (Arletty) "You talk like a child. People love that way in books, in dreams. Not in real life."
• (Baptiste) "Dreams, life; they're the same. Else life's not worth living."

• (Baptiste) "Your heart beating against my hand."
• (Arletty) "Baptiste."
• (Baptiste) "You were right, Garance. Love is so simple."

• (Nathalie) "How easy it must be."
• (Arletty) "How easy what must be?"
• (Nathalie) "Easy to go, then come back. You go. You're missed. Time works for you. Then you come back, embellished by memory. Yes, that must be easy."

• (Baptiste) "You're so beautiful. But I must let you sleep."
• (Arletty) "I'm not very sleepy."
• (Baptiste) "Remember: You could work at the Funambules."
• (Arletty) "But I can't do anything."
• (Baptiste) "I'll help you. You need work."
• (Arletty) "Why not? I could show my legs."
• (Arletty) "The audience doesn't ask for much."
• (Baptiste) "But I love you, Garance."
• (Arletty) "Please don't be so solemn. It chills me. Don't be angry, but I'm not the way you dreamed. You must understand me. I'm simple, so simple. I am what I am. I want to please those I like. And when I want to say yes, I can't say no."
• (Arletty) "I prefer moonlight, don't you?"

• (L'inspecteur de police) "Your trade?"
• (Arletty) "I'm an artiste. I'm surprised Madame didn't tell you."
• (L'inspecteur de police) "Put down "artiste"."
• (Unnamed) "Artiste; in the boudoir."
• (Arletty) "Why so rude?"
• (L'inspecteur de police) "We're not rude. We're just joking. Where do you perform? And since when?"
• (Arletty) "The Funambules. About three weeks."
• (L'inspecteur de police) "Just passing through town. And before that?"
• (Arletty) "I posed for painters."
• (L'inspecteur de police) "Sure. Who?"
• (Arletty) "Mr. Ingres, for one."
• (L'inspecteur de police) "Don't know him."
• (Arletty) "He's a bit like you. He fiddles around."
• (L'inspecteur de police) "None of your jokes, my girl."
• (Arletty) "You joke, too."
• (L'inspecteur de police) "I imagine I needn't ask the lady what outfit she poses in."

• (Édouard, Count de Montray) "You're much too lovely to be truly loved."
• (Arletty) "Truth, but only from the neck up, it frustrated them."

• (Arletty) "Still writing plays?"
• (Marcel Herrand) "Yes, in my idle moments."
• (Arletty) ""Misconduct" A tragedy?"
• (Marcel Herrand) "No, a slightly ribald farce. I loathe tragedy. Such an inferior genre. Characters who kill one another, yet never get hurt. How depressing."

• (Arletty) "Listen to the Gods. I used to laugh like that once. I'd burst out laughing, just like that, without thinking. But nowadays - --"
• (Pierre Brasseur) "You're sad."
• (Arletty) "No, but I'm not cheerful either. A spring broke in the music box. The tune is the same but it's in a different key."

• (Arletty) "It's not bad here, though it's a bit sad."
• (Baptiste) "Why sad?"
• (Arletty) "It's always sad when you sleep alone."

Marcel Pérès as Director

• (Marcel Pérès) "Act. Act. You have the wrong place. We are not allowed to act here. We walk on our hands. And you know why? They bully us. If we put on plays, they'd have to close their great, noble theaters. Their public is bored to death by museum pieces, dusty tragedies and declaiming mummies who never move. But the Funambules is full of life, movement. Extravaganzas. Appearances, disappearances, like in real life. And then-boom-the kick in the pants."

Marcel Herrand as Pierre-François Lacenaire

• (Marcel Herrand) "People. Actors aren't people. They're every man and no man."

• (Marcel Herrand) "His Lawyer says, "Above all, don't talk." The Priest: "Confession is half-remission." He confesses. The Judge: "You Killed and confessed. Perfect. Off with your head." The fellow, disappointed protests: "But confession is half-remission." The Judge: "True but justice must be done. So we'll just cut off half your head.""

• (Marcel Herrand) "Never look back at the past, my angel. It leaps at your throat like a mad dog."

• (Marcel Herrand) "Here comes Judgment Day."

• (Marcel Herrand) "I don't love you, but you are the only woman for whom I have no contempt."

• (Marcel Herrand) "What a splendid destiny. To love no one, to be alone. To be loved by no one. To be free."

• (Marcel Herrand) "I am well informed. For example, I knew about your return at once. I learned where you were living and with whom."
• (Arletty) "Nothing escapes you."
• (Marcel Herrand) "And I know they've put my angel in a gilded cage."

• (Marcel Herrand) "And the man in white? Do you think your friend, the mime, is happy? To think I had the absurd notion of killing him. Comical, no? One might as well stab at a breeze or a moonbeam."

• (Édouard, Count de Montray) "How do you ply your talents these days?"
• (Marcel Herrand) "Since you ask, I'm putting the finishing touches on something that will cause a sensation."
• (Édouard, Count de Montray) "A tragedy, no doubt."
• (Marcel Herrand) "No, a comedy, a farce. Or a tragedy, if you prefer. It's all the same. There's no difference. Or very little. For example, if a king is deceived, it's a tragedy of infidelity. He's deceived not by his wife --"
• (Pierre Brasseur) "But by Fate."
• (Marcel Herrand) "Yes, Fate. But if it's a poor devil like you or me, Monsieur de Montray; and I use "me" as a figure of speech; it's no longer a tragedy, but mere buffoonery, a sorry tale of cuckolds."

• (Marcel Herrand) "The mere thought of them killing each other, over a woman, because of me, comforts me."

• (Marcel Herrand) "Is it not absurd to ask people who they are?"
• (Édouard, Count de Montray) "Excuse me?"
• (Marcel Herrand) "That's why they're so evasive. They give you the easy reply: a name, a title. But who they are really, who they are deep down, they conceal with great care."

• (Marcel Herrand) ""Yet I'll not shed her blood nor scar that whiter skin than snow and smooth as monumental alabaster. Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men. Put out the light, and then; " Yes, let's put out the light. Good night, Desdemona. Good night, Othello."
• (Arletty) "I am as I am, I'm made as you see. When I feel like laughing, I laugh heartily. I love those who love me. Am I really to blame? If a man that I love, is never the same?"

Pierre Renoir as Jéricho

• (Pierre Renoir) "What's Baptiste got against me?"
• (Nathalie) "Nothing. Only that you don't mind your own business."
• (Pierre Renoir) "Is it his business what is or isn't mine? I've always lived all alone. So I take an interest in others. Always alone. That's not living. No one to love me. Nothing, zero, naught. If I were a widower, at least I'd have memories. But no woman would have me. They preferred petty fly-by-nights and libertines."

• (Pierre Renoir) "It's Jupiter. Alias Jericho, because of my horn. Alias Medusa, because of my gaze. Greetings, Lacenaire. My respects to Beauty."

• (Pierre Renoir) "Here you are, bandit, body snatcher."
• (Anselme Debureau) "Don't start."
• (Pierre Renoir) "Shame on you. You stole my looks, my identity."
• (Anselme Debureau) "You're not the only ragman in Paris."

• (Pierre Renoir) "Do you dream about cats? Do you dream about dogs? Have you seen troubled waters? Here's the key to your dreams, bound and illustrated."
• (Pierre Renoir) "Greetings, boss."

• (Pierre Renoir) "I may be drunk, but I've still got principles."

• (Pierre Renoir) "Greetings, all. This is Jericho, alias Wild Boar, Lone Sleeper."

• (Pierre Renoir) "Here's Jericho, alias the Trumpet, alias the Flask, for my drinking, alias Woe-Is-Me, for my hard lot. Greetings, stage manager."

• (Pierre Renoir) "They also call me The Spark, The Stoker, The Dove-keeper, because I like to keep turtledoves together."

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