A Chorus Line (film)

"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."

"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."

"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!"

"Why is it only I ever get invited places?"

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

"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."

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

"[singing] 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."

"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. [singing] 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..."

"One singular sensation."

"Michael Douglas - Zach, choreographer"

"Alyson Reed - Cassie"

"Terrence Mann - Larry, assistant choreographer"

"Sharon Brown - Kim, Zach's secretary"

"Michael Blevins - Mark Tobori"

"Yamil Borges - Diana Morales"

"Jan Gan Boyd - Connie Wong"

"Gregg Burge - Richie Walters"

"Cameron English - Paul San Marco"

"Tony Fields - Al DeLuca"

"Audrey Landers - Val Clarke"

"Nicole Fosse - Kristine Evelyn-DeLuca"

"Vicki Frederick - Sheila Bryant"

"Michelle Johnston - Beatrice Ann "Bebe" Benson"

"Janet Jones - Judy Monroe"

"Pam Klinger - Maggie Winslow"

"Charles McGowan - Mike Cass"

"Justin Ross - Greg Gardner"

"Blane Savage - Don Kerr"

"Matt West - Bobby Mills"