- Curtis Taylor Jr.: Who was the first artist to sing "Hound Dog"?
- C.C. White: Elvis Presley.
- Curtis Taylor Jr.: Big Mama Thorton. She had the number-one single on the R&B charts, but the white stations wouldn't play it, because to them it was just another race record.
- Curtis Taylor Jr.: Deena, you know why I chose you to sing lead? Because your voice... has no personality. No depth. Except for what I put in there.
- Effie Melody White: [sings] And I am telling you/ I'm not going./ You're the best man I'll ever know./ There's no way I can ever go./ No, no, no, no way... / No, no, no, no way I'm living without you./ I'm not living without you./ I don't want to be free./ I'm staying, I'm staying,/ And you, and you,/ you're gonna love me.
- Lorrell Robinson: You got the same wig I got?
- Effie Melody White: Yeah.
- Lorrell Robinson: You got same the same dress I got?
- Effie Melody White: Yeah.
- Lorrell Robinson: [Drags it out] Then shut up!
- C.C. White: Isn't music supposed to express what people are feeling?
- Curtis Taylor Jr.: Music is supposed to sell.
- James 'Thunder' Early: Hey, where you going? You can't leave me, girl! I love you!
- Lorrell Robinson: [sings] And Lorrell loves Jimmy, / Lorrell loves Jimmy, / Lorrell loves Jimmy, it's true. / But Lorrell and Jimmy are through.
- [speaks]
- Lorrell Robinson: "I got a show to do", remember, baby?
- [sings]
- Lorrell Robinson: Oh, baby, I got a show to do!
- Case Worker: Have you considered asking the girl's father for help?
- Effie Melody White: Magic don't have a father.
- Effie Melody White: Tell me something, Curtis. Do you think it's right to promote an amateur performer over a professional?
- Curtis Taylor Jr.: I'm not sure what this is about...
- Effie Melody White: It's about fairness, Curtis. It's about people paying their dues. Isn't that what you keep telling me? "Get in line, Effie. Wait your turn". So why am I sitting here without so much as a B-side on a 45, when an amateur like Martin Luther King Jr. gets his own freaking album? I mean, can he even sing?
- Lorrell Robinson: [as Early is kissing her] That feels nice... I mean it feels funny! You're married, aren't you?
- James 'Thunder' Early: Everybody knows Jimmy's married, baby.
- Lorrell Robinson: Well, then, you get your married hands off!
- Effie Melody White: That's right Curtis. You stopped me once, but you'll never stop me again.
- [sings]
- Effie Melody White: 'Cause this time, Effie White's gonna win!
- Lorrell Robinson: It doesn't take a whiz to know that only a desperate man would drop his pants in living color on national television!
- May: I'm amazed, Mr. Taylor. As much as I love my daughter, I never thought she had much of a voice.
- Curtis Taylor Jr.: Oh, Deena has something better. She has a... quality.
- May: You make her sound like a product.
- Curtis Taylor Jr.: A product. I like that!
- Effie Melody White: So... Deena's going to sing the lead 'cause you like the way she looks? Am I ugly to you, Curtis?
- Curtis Taylor Jr.: Baby, come on! You know how I feel about you, come on. Don't make it personal.
- Effie Melody White: Well, what am I supposed to do? Deena's beautiful, and she's always been beautiful... but I've got the voice, Curtis! I've got the voice! You can't put me in back; you just can't!
- James 'Thunder' Early: [singing] Jimmy want a rib! Jimmy want a steak! Jimmy want piece of yo chocolate cake!
- Deena Jones: [during "The Deena Jones Story" promo film] ... I'm somebody, and nobody's gonna hold me down... I'm somebody!
- Deena Jones: [at the end of her TV "documentary" she sings] ... I'm somebody, and nobody's gonna hold me down... I'm somebody!
- C.C. White: [knocking on the dressing room door] You ladies decent?
- Deena Jones: I am. I can't speak for these two.
- Marty Madison: Now you listen to me, Effie White. For four months I've been your money. I've taken you to every club in this freezing town and I'm telling you that this is it. It's time that you stop making excuses so that you don't have to prove anything. You're gonna have to start proving it, just like the rest of us. I don't know. Maybe Curtis was right about you. You want all the privileges but none of the responsibilities.
- M.C.: And now the courageous, the curvaceous... Creamettes!
- Deena Jones: It's the DREAMettes! The Dreamettes!