“Fame” quotes

“Maybe I die undiscovered and my ghost gets the Grammy.”
Lee Curreri - Bruno

“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.”
Jim Moody - Farrell

“It's funny, gay used to mean such a happy kind of a word, once.”
Paul McCrane - Montgomery

- Drama Teacher: What are you going to do?
- Sheila: I'm doing "The Towering Inferno".
- Drama Teacher: What?
- Sheila: You know, the movie.

“- Coco: You know what they say? The darker the berry, the sweeter the juice.
- Hilary: Yes, but who wants diabetes?”

Irene Cara - Coco
Antonia Franceschi - Hilary

“- Mrs. Sherwood: Speak English.
- Leroy: I speak like I likes.
- Mrs. Sherwood: This is my home room. You'll speak as I like. I teach English. Now, if that's a foreign language, you're going to learn it.”
Anne Meara - Mrs. Sherwood
Gene Anthony Ray - Leroy

“- Mrs. Finsecker: Barbra Streisand didn't change her name.
- Doris: I don't want to talk about it any more!
- Mrs. Finsecker: Well, I'll call you Doris, like I always have.
- Doris: Well, I won't answer!
- Mrs. Finsecker: It's a perfectly good name!
- Doris: Yeah, for a perfectly good person. A skinny, boring, nondescript, perfectly good person.”
Tresa Hughes - Mrs. Finsecker
Maureen Teefy - Doris

“Dance is the hardest department in the school.”
Joanna Merlin - Miss Berg

“Where I come from, it don't pay to read and speak white!”
Gene Anthony Ray - Leroy

“François Lafete must have total control of the creative product - like, eh, Godard. Jean-Luc Godard. Did you ever hear of that guy?”
Steve Inwood - François Lafete

“This is no Mickey Mouse school. You're not getting off easy. Because you're talented, you'll work twice as hard. Now, I don't care how well you dance or how many colored tutus you have. If you don't give your academic subjects equal time, you're out.”
Anne Meara - Mrs. Sherwood

“Graduating from PA is no Academy Award, if you know what I mean. Look, it is better than real school. Like, it's free and you don't get raped in the hallways; but, it's still small change.”
Irene Cara - Coco

“I'm always worried maybe people aren't going to like me when I go to a party. Isn't that crazy?”
Paul McCrane - Montgomery

“- Lisa: I love your coat. I saw that in Bendel's window
- Hilary: My stepmother bought it for me.
- Lisa: Really? I wouldn't mind that kind of step mother.
- Hilary: She didn't do it for me. She wants my father to think she cares. Besides, she loves shopping. She gets multiple orgasms every time she buys something.”
Laura Dean - Lisa
Antonia Franceschi - Hilary

“I hate Ralph Garci! I must remember this feeling and use it in my acting!”
Maureen Teefy - Doris

- Montgomery: "A pie in the face comes with the job". That's what my mom says; she should know.
- Doris: I don't get it.
- Montgomery: A real artist must never be afraid of what other people are gonna say about him.
Paul McCrane - Montgomery
Maureen Teefy - Doris

“Some performers can make love to the camera. I mean, Garbo did. Monroe did.”
Steve Inwood - François Lafete

“- François Lafete: So, you like art movies, huh, Coco?
- Coco: Oh, Antonioni and those people? Sure.”
Steve Inwood - François Lafete
Irene Cara - Coco

“Never being happy isn't the same as being unhappy. Is it?”
Paul McCrane - Montgomery

“- Shorofsky: One man is not an orchestra.
- Bruno: Who needs orchestras? You can do it all with a keyboard, an amp and enough power.
- Shorofsky: You going to play all by yourself?
- Bruno: You don't need anybody else.
- Shorofsky: That's not music, Martelli. That's masturbation.”
Albert Hague - Shorofsky
Lee Curreri - Bruno

“- Mrs. Sherwood: These couple of pages I have are unintelligible.
- Leroy: Its a secret language, all right? It isn't meant for whiteys to understand!”
Anne Meara - Mrs. Sherwood
Gene Anthony Ray - Leroy

“- Farrell: Diction! Watch your diction, Ralph. You're slurring your words.
- Ralph: What? Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Marlon Brando slurred his words, you know. Montgomery Cliff slurred his words. James Dean slurred his words. They were the greatest actors in the whole world and nobody could understand a word they said.”
Jim Moody - Farrell
Barry Miller - Ralph

“Less lip, Monroe, more sweat!”
Joanna Merlin - Miss Berg

“- Hilary: Son derriere noir... c'est formidable!
- Lisa: Wow, I love your accent. What did you say?
- Hilary: I'll dig his black ass.”

Antonia Franceschi - Hilary
Laura Dean - Lisa

“Acting is the hardest profession in the world.”
Jim Moody - Farrell