- Bruno Martelli: Doris, you gotta understand, it's very easy to keep saying ' You can do better', but you know, there's only so many inches in a foot, so many ounces in a pound.
- Charlie Washington: Hey kid, if you're going to be a dancer, now that's your problem. But you take my word for it: it's a dead-end street.
- Lewis Washington: All I know is tap and there ain't no call for that no more. I want you to teach me the other kinds of dancin'.
- Leroy Johnson: Why?
- Lewis Washington: So I can make my dad proud.
- Cliff Armbruster: Coco, leave the door open a little bit next time. Let some doubt in. Doubt usually carries a little compasion in it's back pocket.