Amélie Poulain
- It's better to help people than to be like a gnome in the garden.
- I had two heart attacks, an abortion, did crack... while I was pregnant. Other than that, I'm fine. [to her father, who is not paying attention]
- [whispering in theater] I like to look for things no one else catches. I hate the way drivers never look at the road in old movies.
- At least you'll never be a vegetable — even artichokes have hearts.
- "I'm nobody's little weasel"
Hipolito
- Without you, today's emotions would be the scurf of yesterday's.
- [Original French: Sans toi, les émotions d'aujourd'hui ne seraient que la peau morte des émotions d'autrefois.]
- Failure teaches us that life is but a draft, a long rehearsal for a show that will never play.
Raymond Dufayel
- So, my little Amélie, you don't have bones of glass. You can take life's knocks. If you let this chance pass, eventually, your heart will become as dry and brittle as my skeleton. So, go to him, dammit.
- [Original French: Voilà, ma petite Amélie, vous n'avez pas des os en verre. Vous pouvez vous cogner à la vie. Si vous laissez passer cette chance, alors avec le temps, c'est votre cœur qui va devenir aussi sec et cassant que mon squelette. Alors, allez-y, nom d'un chien!]
- Eva: Times are hard for dreamers.
- [Original French: Les temps sont durs pour les rêveurs.]
Narrator
- In the apartment downstairs from Amélie lives Raphæl Defyal; they call him "The Glass Man." He was born with bones as brittle as crystal. All his furniture is padded. A handshake could crush his fingers. He's stayed inside for twenty years. Time has changed nothing.
