A Chorus Line Quotes

Sheila Sounds like God got out the wrong side of the bed.

Bobby I hate these auditions. I don't mind being treated like puppets, but worms?

Sheila Or merchandise? Personally, I wouldn't mind him being such a shit if he wasn't so goddamned talented.

Zach Let me explain what I'm doing. This is not gonna be like other auditions. I'm looking for a strong chorus... people who can work together as a group - but I'm going to try to shake you up, see who you really are. We've got some small but important parts to be played by people in the chorus. Since I need great dancers, I can't expect you all to be great actors. So I don't want anybody to try to act. You understand? Just to be exactly who you are, which is just as important to me as how well you dance.

Paul Who am I anyway? Am I my resume? That is a picture of a person I don't know, What does he want from me? What should I try to be? So many faces all around and here we go, I need this job, Oh God, I need this show.

Taglines One singular sensation.

Zach I'm going to ask you some questions. What I want to know is details about yourself. Things you're proud of, things you're ashamed of. So if anybody can't handle it and wants to leave, right now is the time to make up your mind.

Connie Connie Wong. Always Wong, never Wight.

Connie Bad joke. I was born in Chinatown, lower east side.

Zach How old are you?

Connie I was born December 5th, four thousand six hundred and forty two, the Year of the Chicken.

Sheila My mother was kind of middle-aged and frumpy.

Diana Whose isn't?

Sheila At fourteen she was middle-aged and frumpy.

Zach Is that the kind of woman your father liked?

Sheila No. My father liked them very young, tall,and filled out in all the right places.

Zach Dammit, now can't ANYBODY up there hear me! Just let your hair down! Can't you talk? All of you, just talk, to me, to each other!... Jeez!

Mike Cass How many jobs are there?

Larry 4 and 4.

Judy Monroe 44?

Sheila No, 4 and 4.

Larry 4 boys, 4 girls.

Sheila Need any women?

Zach Do you ever think about what you're gonna do if you stop dancing?

Connie For me?

Zach Yeah.

Connie Real life, I guess.

Zach Well, what? Getting married, having babies?

Connie Go off my diet.

Zach What made you start dancing?

Mike Cass Because of my sister. She was a girl. So, my Mom decided she's the one to get all the dancing lessons. So, very Saturday my mother would take her. Once in a while she'd take me along.

Zach How old were you?

Mike Cass Four. Five. I'd sit there all eager and... I'm watchin sis, go pitter-pat, Said, "I can do that", "I can do that"...

Zach Tell me about the Bronx.

Diana What's to tell about the Bronx? It's uptown and to the right.

Zach What made you start dancing?

Diana Who knows? I'm Puerto Rican. We jump around a lot.

Connie Tapping's not my strongest point!

Larry I see that.

Sheila Why is it only I ever get invited places?

Greg Finally I got a girl who was actually willing to do it. So, there I am, making out in the backseat with Sally Ketchum. A little of this, a little of that - very little of that. Well, after about an hour she said, "Don't you want to do anything else?" I suddenly thought to myself, "No, I don't.

Zach Did this come as a big surprise to you?

Greg I guess. Yeah. It was the moment I realized I was gay.

Sheila You were a rotten dancer.

Zach Why do you think I became your choreographer?

Bobby Mills Do you want to know all the wonderful and exciting things that've happened to me? Or do you want the truth?

Sheila I have a daughter. She's nine. She loves me a lot, hates me a lot. And, uh, God help her, she wants to be a dancer.

Diana What's so wrong about that? How can anybody in their right mind want to be anything else? I remember I used to stand outside this stage door, and watch the girls come out, and think: "God, can anything like that ever happen to me?" But now I meet somebody, and they say: "Wow, you dance on Broadway? You got somewhere. You're something.

Bobby Mills I would always try to find ways to kill myself, but then I realized to commit suicide in Buffalo is redundant.

Val Every audition, I would dance rings around the other girls and I'd wind up in the alley with the other rejects. Until one day, after an audition, I swiped my dance card. And on a scale of 1 to 10 they gave me for dance: 10, for looks: 3. Well. Dance 10, Looks 3, And I'm still on unemployment, Dancing for my own enjoyment, That ain't it, kid, That ain't it, kid. Dance 10, Looks: 3, Is like to die. Left the theater, And called the doctor for my appointment to buy: Tits and ass, bought myself a fancy pair, Tightened up the derriere, Did the nose with it, All that goes with it, Tits and ass, Had the bingo-bongos done, Suddenly I'm getting national tours, Tits and ass, Won't get you jobs, Unless they're yours. Didn't cost a fortune, neither, Didn't hurt my sex life, either...

Bobby Mills I couldn't catch a ball if it had Elmer's Glue on it. And wouldn't my father have to be this big ex-football hero. Well, he was so humiliated, he didn't know what to tell his friends, so he told them all I had Polio. On Father's Day, I used to limp for him.

Larry Don't you know the combination, Sheila?

Sheila I knew it when I was in front!

Zach Is there anything you want to tell me?

Sheila What do I want to be when I grow up?

Zach Okay.

Sheila Young. That light - don't you have anything softer?

Zach Come closer.

Sheila Can I sit on your lap?

Zach Do you always come on like this?

Sheila No. Sometimes I'm aggressive.