Ram Bowen: This romance is doomed.
Lillian Corning: Why?
Ram Bowen: You get up too early.

- Paul Newman (as Ram Bowen) in Paris Blues (1961)

Ram Bowen: You just do anything I say, don't you?
Lillian Corning: Well, I want to stay.
Ram Bowen: You're a nut. Well, I ain't gettin' involved with no nut!

- Paul Newman (as Ram Bowen) in Paris Blues (1961)

Ram Bowen: You just picked the wrong guy for what you wanted.
Lillian Corning: Yeah?
Ram Bowen: Yeah. I'm not on the market.
Lillian Corning: I wasn't shopping.

- Joanne Woodward (as Lillian Corning) in Paris Blues (1961)

Lillian Corning: I'd like to give you a going away present. You may not like it, but I don't care. It's just this: you're never gonna forget me. You're gonna walk down the street of wherever you happen to be, you're gonna see me, even when you know I'm not there. And nobody is ever gonna be as right for you as I was for twelve days in Paris in the autumn 'cause that was your gift to me.

- Joanne Woodward (as Lillian Corning) in Paris Blues (1961)

Lillian Corning: You know, everybody's always waiting for everybody else to take a chance because they're so afraid!

- Joanne Woodward (as Lillian Corning) in Paris Blues (1961)