“- Action: Juvenile delinquency is purely a social disease.
- Riff: Hey! I got a social disease!”

Tony Mordente - Action
Russ Tamblyn - Riff

“Take a look around. The majority of the youth roam the streets... dealing in drugs, sex and violence, thinking these things have no real effect on life.”
Ben Chavis - Rev. Saviour

“Benjamin! You nasty youth, your crime has shocked me to the core. Never in my whole career have I encountered this before. Guards! Seize him! Lock him in a cell. Throw the keys into the Nile as well.”
Donny Osmond - Joseph

“He was just a kid who made a mistake and got sent to reform school. They made a criminal out of him.”

Ann Sheridan - Laury Martin

“There's all those other kids, hundreds of them, in the streets and bad environment, whom I don't want to see grow up like Rocky did. I can't sacrifice them for Rocky. They have lives too. I can't throw them away.”
Pat O'Brien - Father Jerry