"I'm always worried maybe people aren't going to like me when I go to a party. Isn't that crazy? Do you ever get a kind of a sick feeling in the pit of your stomach when you dread things? Gee, I wouldn't want to miss a party for anything, but, every time I go to one, I keep feeling like the whole world's against me."

"Never being happy isn't the same as being unhappy. Is it?"

"I's young, I's single, and I loves to mingle!"

"Shirley: It's just not fair. I didn't wanna come here, anyway. This school sucks. You done me a favour, shithead. You saved me four fuckin' years from this ass-lickin' school. You're lookin' at one happy lady. Who wants to go to a fuckin' school to learn to dance, anyway?"

"Mr. Farrell: There are 50,000 people walking around calling themselves actors and maybe 500 are making a living at it. Most of those do commercials to pay the rent. The rest wait tables, clean other people's apartments, living on welfare and hope. And don't think talent's enough to get you through. You've gotta have a strong technique, a good agent, and, most of all, a thick skin; because, now you're part of an underprivileged minority and you're going to suffer."

"Fame! I'm gonna live forever/ I'm gonna learn how to fly (high!)/ I feel it coming together/ People will see me and cry!"

"Remember. Remember. Remember my name."

"If they've really got what it takes, it's going to take everything they've got."

"Remember my name..."

"Study, drill and technique do not stifle the talent, they free it."

"Irene Cara - Coco Hernandez – Drama, Music and Dance"

"Lee Curreri - Bruno Martelli – Music"

"Laura Dean - Lisa Monroe – Dance"

"Antonia Franceschi - Hilary Van Doren – Dance"

"Paul McCrane - Montgomery MacNeil – Drama"

"Barry Miller - Ralph Garci/Raul Garcia – Drama"

"Gene Anthony Ray - Leroy Johnson – Dance"

"Maureen Teefy - Doris Finsecker – Drama"

"Albert Hague - Mr. Shorofsky – Music"

"Joanna Merlin - Ms. Berg – Dance"

"Jim Moody - Mr. Farrell – Drama"

"Debbie Allen - Lydia – Dance"

"Eddie Barth - Angelo Martelli, Bruno's father"

"Boyd Gaines - Michael"

"Tresa Hughes - Naomi Finsecker, Doris's mother"

"Steve Inwood - François Lafete"

"Richard Belzer - Catch a Rising Star M.C."

"Bill Britten - Mr. England"

"Isaac Mizrahi - Touchstone"

"Sal Piro - Rocky Horror M.C."

"Michael DeLorenzo - Principal dancer"

"Meg Tilly - Principal dancer"

"[Giving a lecture to his college students] Fantasies have to be unrealistic. Because the minute- the second- that you get what you want, you don't- you can't- want it anymore."

"Andrea Corr - Sharon Rabbitte"

"Anne Kent - Mrs. Rabbitte"

"Colm Meaney - Jimmy Rabbitte, Sr."

"Kenneth McCluskey - Derek Scully, Bass"

"Johnny Murphy - Joey 'The Lips' Fagan, Trumpet"

"Dick Massey - Billy Mooney, Drums"

"Glen Hansard - Outspan Foster, Guitar"

"Félim Gormley - Dean Fay, Sax"

"Bronagh Gallagher - Bernie McGloughlin, Backup Singer"

"Dave Finnegan - Mickah Wallace, Drums"

"Maria Doyle - Natalie Murphy, Backup Singer"

"Angeline Ball - Imelda Quirke, Backup Singer"

"Michael Aherne - Steven Clifford, Piano"

"Andrew Strong - Deco Cuffe, Lead Vocals"

"Robert Arkins - Jimmy Rabbitte"

"Joey 'The Lips' Fagan: [to Dean] Are you doing what I told you? Are you thinking of that reed as a woman's nipple?"