Sheila Why is it only I ever get invited places?
Played by Vicki Frederick 
A Chorus Line (1985) · 23 quotes
A Chorus Line (1985) · 23 quotes
2nd most-quoted character in A Chorus Line (1985): in 9 of its 23 quotes
Most scenes with: Zach (2), Larry (2), Diana (2)
Why is it only my ass that ever gets invited places?
More lines from Sheila
1 quote Sheila Scenes with Sheila
7 scenes
Mike Cass] How many jobs are there?
4 and 4.
Judy Monroe 44?
Sheila No, 4 and 4.
4 boys, 4 girls.
Sheila Need any women?
Sheila You were a rotten dancer.
Why do you think I became your choreographer?
Don't you know the combination, Sheila?
Sheila I knew it when I was in front!
Sheila Can I sit on your lap?
Do you always come on like this?
Sheila No. Sometimes I'm aggressive.
Sheila My mother was kind of middle-aged and frumpy.
Whose isn't?
Sheila At fourteen she was middle-aged and frumpy.
Sheila Sounds like God got out the wrong side of the bed.
I hate these auditions. I don't mind being treated like puppets, but worms?
Sheila Or merchandise? Personally, I wouldn't mind him being such a shit if he wasn't so goddamned talented.
Sheila I have a daughter. She's nine. She loves me a lot, hates me a lot. And, uh, God help her, she wants to be a dancer.
What's so wrong about that? How can anybody in their right mind want to be anything else? I remember I used to stand outside this stage door, and watch the girls come out, and think: "God, can anything like that ever happen to me?" But now I meet somebody, and they say: "Wow, you dance on Broadway? You got somewhere. You're something."
