“- Zidler: Remember: a real show, in a real theater, with a real audience. And you'll be...
- Satine: A real actress.”
Jim Broadbent - Harold Zidler
Nicole Kidman - Satine

“Up there, those are the actors and the costumes and the scenery. They don't know the soul of the opera. In your dressing room, I could only teach you the words, the notes. But here... here I can teach you the meaning.”

Robert Englund - Erik, The Phantom

“- Noodles: Well, at least you recognized me. That's something.
- Deborah: Actresses have good memories.”
Robert De Niro - Noodles
Elizabeth McGovern - Deborah

“I saw her once, last summer, walking along the beach. She was wearing a big hat and sunglasses and a long flowing cape. Yeah, she was, she was walking along in a light rain, without an umbrella. I don't think anybody even knew who she was. Then, all of the sudden, she just, ahm, disappeared into a house and I never saw her again.”

Harvey Forbes Fierstein - Bernie Whitlock

“I think film is a world of directors. Theater is a world of actors.”
Diego Luna