Zach quotes from A Chorus Line (1985)

Zach

Let me explain what I'm doing. This is not gonna be like other auditions. I'm looking for a strong chorus... people who can work together as a group - but I'm going to try to shake you up, see who you really are. We've got some small but important parts to be played by people in the chorus. Since I need great dancers, I can't expect you all to be great actors. So I don't want anybody to try to act. You understand? Just to be exactly who you are, which is just as important to me as how well you dance.

Zach

I'm going to ask you some questions. What I want to know is details about yourself. Things you're proud of, things you're ashamed of. So if anybody can't handle it and wants to leave, right now is the time to make up your mind.

Zach

Tell You about the Bronx.

What's to tell about the Bronx? It's uptown and to the right.

Zach

What made you start dancing?

Who knows? I'm Puerto Rican. We jump around a lot.

Sheila

You were a rotten dancer.

Zach

Why do you think I became your choreographer?

Sheila

Can I sit on your lap?

Zach

Do you always come on like this?

Sheila

No. Sometimes I'm aggressive.

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.

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"...

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.

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.