Quotes

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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?

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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.

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Sheila: You were a rotten dancer. Zach: Why do you think I became your choreographer?

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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.

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Larry: Don't you know the combination, Sheila? Sheila: I knew it when I was in front!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Connie: Tapping's not my strongest point! Larry: I see that.

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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... [singing] I'm watchin' sis, go pitter-pat, Said, "I can do that", "I can do that"...

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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."

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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.

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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.