Chorus Line Quotes:

I watched 'A Chorus Line' over and over when I was growing up, to the point that I was able to recite the entire movie.

- Sharni Vinson

topic: Growing Up, Lines, Able, Chorus Line

Americans enjoy uniformity in a way that the British don't; they wanted everybody of a sort of nice chorus line height and here I was, this person who was a good three inches taller than anyone else on the end of the line.

- Jeremy Irons

topic: Nice, Lines, Height, Chorus Line, Chorus

[in reference to turkey bowling] He [Tommy] squinted and picked his target, then took his steps and sent the bird sliding down the aisle. A collective gasp rose from the crew as the fourteen-pound, self-basting, fresh-frozen projectile of wholesome savory goodness plowed into the soap bottles like a freight train into a chorus line of drunken grandmothers.

- Christopher Moore

topic: Grandmother, Self, Turkeys, Savory, Chorus Line

In '75, the year both A Chorus Line and Chicago hit Broadway, my head spun around and I became the ultimate theater queen for life.

- Michael Musto

source: Broadway World Interview, www.broadwayworld.com. July 25, 2003.

topic: Queens, Years, Broadway, Spun, Chorus Line

I couldn't catch a ball if it had Elmer's Glue all over it. And my father had to be this ex-football star. He didn't know what to tell his friends, so he told them all I had Polio. On Father's Day, I used to limp for him.

- Matthew West

topic: Football, Stars, Father, Chorus Line

The people who visit the [Lincoln] memorial always look like an advertisement for democracy, so bizarrely, suspiciously diverse that one time I actually saw a man in a cowboy hat standing there reading the Gettysburg Address next to a Hasidic Jew. I wouldn’t have been surprised if they had linked arms with a woman in a burka and a Masai warrior, to belt out ‘It’s a Small World After All,’ flanked by a chorus line of nuns and field-tripping, rainbow-skinned schoolchildren

- Sarah Vowell

topic: Reading, Warrior, Men, Standing There, Lincoln Memorial

The world is not checking in with us to see what skills we've picked up, what idea we've concocted, what dreams we carry in our hearts. When a job opens, whether it's in the chorus line or on the assembly line, it goes to the person standing there. It goes to the eager beaver the boss sees when he looks up from his work: the pint-sized kid standing at the basketball court on the playground waiting for one of the older boys to head home. "Hey, kid, wanna play?"

- Chris Matthews

topic: Basketball, Dream, Jobs, Beavers, Chorus Line

Trees Trees, proud standing people stretching fingertips to the sky, reaching, praying glorious attention, breathing light. strength shelter timeless confidence bending and firm comforting rooted chorus line dancing with the moon, the wind, the clouds framing bursts of stars tender rugged celebration absorbing and releasing life each holy branch holding the power of the Universe. There.

- Wallace Stevens

topic: Stars, Power, Moon, Fingertips, Chorus Line

I'd much rather fail than do something like 'The Chorus Line' movie, sanitized and Hollywoodized.

- Rob Marshall

topic: Lines, Failing, Chorus, Chorus Line