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Clips from Fame

"[DOOR SQUEAKS]"
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"[FOOTSTEPS ECHOING]"
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"[PHONE RINGING]"
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"[GIGGLING]"
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"[PIANO PLAYS]"
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"[DOOR CLOSES]"
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"[FLUTE PLAYS]"
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"[FOOTSTEPS ECHOING]"
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"[CARS HONKING]"
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"BOY: I worry maybe people aren't gonna like me when I go to a party."
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"Isn't that crazy?"
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"Do you ever get kind of a sick feeling in your stomach when you dread things?"
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"I wouldn't wanna miss a party, but every time I go to one..."
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"...I keep feeling like the whole world's against me."
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"See, I've spent my whole life in military academies."
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"My mother doesn't have a place for me where she lives..."
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"...and she doesn't know what else to do with me."
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"You mustn't misunderstand about my mother. She's really a lovely person."
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"I guess every boy thinks his mother is beautiful, but my mother really is."
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"She tells me in every letter how sorry she is that we're not together more..."
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"One time we were together, though. She met me in San Francisco once..."
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"...and we were together for two whole days, just like we were sweethearts."
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"It was the most wonderful time I ever had."
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"Then I had to go back to the military academy."
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"Every time I walk into that barracks, I get a kind of..."
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"A kind of a..."
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"I'm sorry."
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"Kind of a depressed feeling."
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"It's got hard, stone walls. You know what I mean?"
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"I guess I've bored you enough, telling you about myself."
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"Thank you."
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"Sorry about that. I goofed up the last couple of lines. I guess I'm nervous."
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"That's okay. You did very well."
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"I'm sorry."
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"[VIOLIN PLAYS]"
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"Thank you. You play very well."
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"Now Mrs. Tossoff's gonna play notes for you. Sing them back to us. Like so:"
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"La, la, la, la, la, la, la"
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"- It's too low for me. - You're a tenor? You want to start here?"
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"La, la, la, la, la, la, la"
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"Louder, please."
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"[CHATTERING]"
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"I'm so nervous."
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"- I'm not singing. - But you have to."
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"- But I came to dance. - You have to sing too."
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"- And act, and play an instrument. - All three?"
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"GIRL: it says "performing arts." - You don't have to do everything."
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"- Sure as shit helps, baby. - Thank you. Next group, please. Hurry."
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"LISA: Oh, I like your nose ring. - I'm into culture."
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"- Does that hurt, or is that ethnic? BERG: Music, please, Mrs. Snell."
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"Please pay attention. We have a lot to do today."
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"- I hate my legs. GIRL: Yeah. Me too."
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"- I've tried every diet in the whole world. - Really? Me too."
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"But you can't help your glands. I'm sorry! I'm just so nervous."
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"Relax! Come on, use your body."
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"[HONKING]"
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"- Careful. That's 7000 worth of machine. DRIVER: Dollars or pounds?"
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"- Don't touch the rotary pots. - What pots?"
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"BRUNO: I got it set on sawtooth."
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"Why can't he play piccolo? Something sensible. Or the accordion, like Papa did."
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"My son's head is into the future. And Papa could never play the accordion."
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"- Do you think you're talented? - You swine! You coward! You cad!"
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"You dare judge me in my misfortitude?"
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"You dare to ask me the question who is the father of my child?"
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"- You! You! I point to you, Nigel! MAN: Next, please."
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"The next group of musicians can go to the fifth floor now, please."
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"- Name? - Excuse me, miss."
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"You don't need his name. He's not here for the audition. He's my partner."
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"- What school's he from? - He ain't into school."
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"He's just helping me out with my dancing. But it's me who's auditioning."
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"He doesn't go upstairs without filling in his name."
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"Leroy's his name, but I'm auditioning. Shirley Mulholland. That's two L's."
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"- And don't ask him to do no writing. - Doesn't he talk, even?"
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"He ain't into conversation until you get to know him."
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"- Leroy what? - Leroy Johnson. Can we go up now?"
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"He's not going up until he checks his knife."
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"We ain't staying long enough for no trouble. He's just helping a friend."
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"He's not helping out anyone unless he checks his knife."
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"This is the High School for Performing Arts. We don't cut each other up here."
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"- You want it? - I want it."
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"- You sure you want it? - Yeah, I'm sure."
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"- Promise you won't steal it, now? - I promise."
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"SHIRLEY: Thanks, ma'am. SHERWOOD: Name?"
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"Don't worry, baby. I got lots of knives."
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"TEACHER: What are you going to do? - I was gonna sing."
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"- You don't have to sing, honey. - We know our rights."
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"- You can't refuse her an audition. - She's not supposed to sing her audition."
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"Please, excuse me, if you don't mind. Honey, you don't have to sing for us..."
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"- ...because this is the drama department. - When she sings, it is drama."
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"- What's your name, honey? FINSECKER: Finsecker."
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"Doris Finsecker."
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"[WHISTLING]"
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"- Hi. - How do you do?"
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"- What's your name? - Ralph Garci."
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"- Who was your teacher? - Well, my father taught me."
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"He's doing work for the government. I'm not supposed to talk about it..."
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"...but my father played some of the most beautiful symphonies..."
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"- ...in the whole world once. - What did he play?"
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"Trombones."
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"And French horns."
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"English horns."
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"- Saxophones. - Anything else?"
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"Yeah."
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"- Bongos, maracas, that sort of stuff. - What did he teach you?"
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"Why don't you try the dance department?"
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"- Why do you want to go to school here? - Should I tell him?"
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"Yeah, tell him."
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"We can't afford a professional children's school."
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"I'm a little nervous."
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"Don't be shy, Sheila. Come over here. What are you going to do?"
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"- I'm doing The Towering Inferno. - What?"
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"- You know, the movie? - Oh."
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"All right, I'm playing O.J. Simpson. I'm in this building."
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"There's fire all around, right? So I go to the elevator."
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"- Think of it as a concentration exercise. - Concentrate."
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"TEACHER: Just sing to Michael..."
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"- ...and don't worry about anybody else. - I don't think I can. I can't just stare."
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"TEACHER: He won't mind."
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"- Waiting for the elevator. FINSECKER: Press the button, Doris."
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"[PIANO PLAYS]"
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