- Leroy Johnson: Look, I, I like my teaching to fall back on. I don't know if I'm ready to get out there and just strike out on my own.
- Lydia Grant: I'm gonna strike you on my own if you don't get on outta here.
- Chris Donlon: You know, I've been outta school less than a year and they ask me to come back and be guest speaker. I hear it was ten years before Al Pacino got an invitation.
- Coco Hernandez: You know, becoming a star isn't really important to me anymore. Becoming a great artist, that's what counts.
- Jesse V. Valesquez: Geez, what an egomaniac!
- Danny X. Amatullo: Donlon's gonna need a truck to carry his head around in, watch.
- Leroy Johnson: I'm gonna miss working with all the kids here... everyone... I feel after six years that I just have my wings and I should fly away from this nest. Eh... however... I thank you Miss Grant, who's been my friend... and my teacher. You've shown me the right way... and you always will.
- Doris Schwartz: Well, this is the place where I discovered the real Doris Schwartz. Y'know, I was always acting as a kid, always playing roles, always trying to be what everybody wanted me to be. Then I came here, and everybody had so much confidence, and personality and I realized I didn't know who I was. Then after about four years, and the help of the people here, and the love, I started to get acquainted with myself. And you know something? I really like who I am. If I hadn't come here, I probably would never have known that.
- Montgomery MacNeil: Growing up, I was short and as you can see, I'm still short four years later. Montgovery Macneil, forever short, a little leprechaun he is.
- Chris Donlon: Besides, all that rejection is part of being an actor. Not a lot of fun, but it beats selling encyclopedias.
- Lydia Grant: [to Michael Taftner] You don't have the right to come in here and crush other people's dreams.