"Now listen, I know you've got to think about your image, cause image is important to you, because of course your frie…"

"If you want to be somebody, if you want to go somewhere, you better wake up and pay attention."

"If you wake up in the morning, and you can't think anything but singing, then you should be a singer, girl."

"[After Maria has said she doesn't know the words of a song and her classmates snicker] Hey, hey - excuse me! It is NO…"

"Do you know what I hate most about this place? There is nothing to pick up and throw."

"You lied to me and you're gonna go to hell."

"And the first thing you're gonna do, gentlemen, is take off those hats. This is a brand... new... day. [Class laughs …"

"So because you think they sang it better you all are ready to leave 'cause you got scared? Aw yea, nah, that's your M…"

"[To Rita Louise Watson during roll call] We'll just call you Rita, Diva with a 'Tude."

"Wendy Makkena – Sister Mary Robert"