- Alexandra Crane: [about Star] Why does everything have to be a fight with her?
- Carlotta Brown: Because that's all she's ever known. She doesn't know how to do anything else.
- Carlotta Brown: God, sometimes I get all up in my head. I start thinking bad things and then bad things happen.
- Carlotta Brown: [to Derek] My mother got her teeth knocked out so you could vote. Don't tell me I got to open my eyes. I'm woke.
- Star Davis: If we have any chance at all, we can't be walking in there looking like "American Idol" rejects.