- Buster Moon: [Hears Meena singing 'Hallelujah' on her headphones] You think you can sing like that? In front of an audience?
- Meena: I don't know. But I'd like to try.
- Buster Moon: Good. Because I want to see it.
- Buster Moon: [showing her a shiny, overly flashy outfit he wants Ash to wear for the performance] Isn't this a great color for you?
- Ash: I can't tell. It's melting my eyes.
- [from trailer]
- Buster Moon: A singing competition. Just think, your neighbor, the-the-the grocery store manager, that-that-that-that chicken, right there. Everyone in the city gets a shot at being a star live on my stage!
- Buster Moon: Why aren't you rehearsing?
- Frog: I'm through! They said I'm an intolerable egomaniac. I don't even know what that means!
- Ash: Hey, Moon, you gave me the wrong list! Cheesy pop's not exactly my style.
- Buster Moon: Style. I'm glad you brought that up. Now, let's see. There... Isn't this a great colour for you?
- Ash: I can't tell. It's melting my eyes...
- Buster Moon: Just look at you, dear. Wow! You don't look a day over 90.
- Eddie: [embarrassed] Oh, my gosh.
- Buster Moon: Buster Moon. We met at Eddie's graduation.
- Nana: Oh, lucky me. A visit from my useless grandson and his ghastly little theater friend.
- Buster Moon: Look at that. She remembers me.
- Buster Moon: [Ash finishes her set] What about that? We just witnessed the birth of a genuine rock star!
- Ash: Moon, you've... you've got some stuck here.
- Buster Moon: [she pulls a quill from his cheek] Ow!
- Buster Moon: If your folks could just loan me the money until...
- Eddie: $100,000? Buster, come on.
- Buster Moon: Hoo! I gotta think. I've gotta think. I've gotta think. I've got to come up with a solution...
- Eddie: Look, maybe it's time to stop thinking and it's time to just move on. I mean, this theater of yours, you could get some decent money for it and... I don't know, maybe we could do something together.
- Buster Moon: What? What, sit around playing video games? Do you know what that is?
- Eddie: Uh, it's a bucket?
- Buster Moon: Yes, and do you know why I have this bucket?
- Eddie: 'Cause the roof is leaking?
- Buster Moon: [pointing to another bucket] No, that's the bucket for the leak.
- Lance: [going over the song list given to Ash by Buster Moon] Man, these are like the cheesiest songs of all time!
- Ash: I know right? I mean, I was thinking of writing my own song instead.
- Lance: Wait, what? Your own song?
- Ash: Well... Yeah.
- Lance: Look, if you wanna win that money... Just do what the koala says.
- Ash: Why, you think I can't write my own song?
- Lance: Hey, I'm just saying. Not everyone can write songs, okay? I may make it look easy, babes, but no it's not!
- [Johnny is practicing on the piano; he bangs the keys, fursterated]
- Johnny: [groaning] Oh!
- Miss Crawly: [casually] I know, that was very bad.
- Johnny: [imitating his father while driving] "Soft on the corners, Johnny! You don't do it any right, Johnny! Speed up, Johnny! Do it like I showed you-"
- [screams as he realizes he's charging straight into his father]
- Ash: [Ash has just discovered that her boyfriend, Lance, has been cheating on her and is throwing him out of her house] I DID ALL OF THIS FOR YOU...
- [throws Lance's guitar case into his lap, knocking the wind out of him]
- Ash: FOR *BOTH OF US!*
- [Ash slams the door behind her. She looks hurt as she listens to Lance and his new girlfriend Becky]
- Rosita: [sending her kids to school] Bye, Iggy, bye, Perry, bye, Carla, bye, Gail, bye, Rory, bye, Micky, bye, Moe, bye, Nelson, bye, Hannah, bye, Tess, bye-bye, Caspar. Phew!
- Miss Crawly: [Hearing Johnny's father calling him over a radio in Johnny's jacket] Oh, Johnny, your jacket's talking!
- Young Nana: [singing] Once there was a way, to get back homeward. Once there was a way to get back home. Sleep pretty darling, do not cry, and I will sing a lullaby.
- Meena's Mother: [comforting Meena after she fails to sing at Buster Moon's audition] Oh, honey, please don't cry. You are not a failure. There'll be other chances, you just...
- Meena's Grandfather: Bah! The heck, there will!
- Meena's Mother: Dad, please.
- Meena's Grandfather: Come on! Don't you want this?
- Meena: Well, sure, but I messed it up.
- Meena's Grandfather: Then you gotta go back there tomorrow and say, Mr. Moon, I demand you let me re-audition! Be confident! Show 'em you ain't gonna be pushing around! You got that, Meena?
- Meena: Um...
- Meena's Grandfather: Good. Now go get my cocoa.
- Rosita: My body parts are not responding, okay? It's never gonna happen. I should just be getting groceries.
- Rosita: [comforting Ash after Lance cheated on her] Well it sounds to me, like you're way better off without that... that...
- Gunter: That total super-jerk dinkleschplatt!
- Rosita: Exactly. Total super-jerk dinkle... s-shplat.
- Buster Moon: Gunter and Rosita, you're on.
- Rosita: Okay, here.
- [gives Ash her purse]
- Rosita: There should be some gum or some candy in there somewhere. Just help yourself.
- [after Buster goes back to sleep, Meena knocks and opens the slide door]
- Meena: Mr. Moon?
- Buster Moon: [in his sleep] Meena, please.
- Meena: I baked a cake for you 'cause... Well, I know you're sad right now and probably afraid to try again and...
- Buster Moon: [gets up] Yeah, I am afraid. I'm afraid that this... This, me, right now, this is who I am. This is-this is my lot for life. That I'm not the guy that my dad wanted me to be. Not by a million miles.
- Meena: But you told me...
- Buster Moon: [interrupts] What? What did I say?
- Meena: Well, you know... "Don't let fear stop you from doing the thing you love."
- Buster Moon: [groans] That's just a bunch of stupid, corny...
- Meena: No, it's not.
- Buster Moon: What? You really believe that you're gonna be a singer?
- Meena: Well, yeah, maybe...
- Buster Moon: [snapped] WELL, THEN YOU'RE JUST AS BIG A FOOL THAN I AM!
- [Meena gasps quietly]
- Buster Moon: Look, kid... you and me, we're both afraid for good reason. 'Cause deep down, we know... We just don't have what it takes.
- [Buster looks down to the ground. Broken-hearted, Meena sets down the cake in frustration and runs away]
- Mike: [to a baboon] A penny? How dare you! I happened to have studied in the Lincoln School of Music!
- Mike: [playing a card game against the bears] Jackpot, baby! Whoo-hoo! Well, I say we call it a night there, fellas. Hey, put the cash in my car, will ya, Derek?
- Buster Moon: And which one of you is the girl?
- Ash: [deadpan] Ha, ha. Very funny.
- Buster Moon: Loud and horrible, but shows promise. Welcome to the show.
- Lance: Heh, cool. I guess we could hang.
- Buster Moon: No, no. I just want her, not you.
- Ash, Lance: What?
- Buster Moon: All right, the rest of the group acts, thank you so much.
- [the animals sighs]
- Buster Moon: Oh, don't feel bad, folks. There'll be a 10% discount on tickets for everyone!
- Lance: Psh. Let's get outta here, Ash. Ash?
- Ash: Uh, yeah. Yeah, let's go.
- [Time passes until dusk and all the auditions are over]
- Miss Crawly: [exhausted] Okay. That's everyone, Mr. Moon.
- Buster Moon: Phew! Alright, call everyone back to stage, Miss Crawly, and let's get... Ohh!
- Miss Crawly: [talking through her megaphone] Hello! Uh, can I have everybody back to stage, please? Everyone, come back to stage for selections.
- Buster Moon: Okay. Thank you, Miss Crawly.
- Miss Crawly: [still talking into the megaphone into Buster's ear] You're welcome, Mr. Moon!
- Lance: [singing and strumming his guitar] I won't sell out for nobody, won't follow no fool.
- Ash: Would you stop? I'd only be doing it for us.
- Lance: [chuckles] Oh, really?
- Ash: Yes, really. If I won that money, we could build our own recording studio, start our own label. I mean, the whole world would get to hear your songs.
- Lance: [singing] I'm not listening to my girlfriend.
- [Ash groans]
- Lance: Cuz she just wants to sell out.