Netflix’s Work It Best Movie Quotes – ‘This is our only chance.’

Starring: Sabrina Carpenter, Liza Koshy, Keiynan Lonsdale, Drew Ray Tanner, Michelle Buteau, Jordan Fisher

OUR RATING: ★★★☆☆

Story:

Netflix’s dance comedy directed by Laura Terruso. The story follows Quinn Ackerman’s (Sabrina Carpenter), a brilliant but clumsy high school senior, whose admission to the college of her dreams depends on her performance at a dance competition. So she forms a ragtag group of dancers to take on the best squad in school. Now she just needs to learn how to dance.

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Best Quotes

Quinn Ackerman: Albert Einstein once said that dancers are the athletes of God. Kim Kardashian once said, “Lighting is everything.” And as head of the AV club, I had to agree. Sometimes I wonder, if Einstein were alive today, would he have even gotten into college? I mean, sure, he was good at math and science, but did he have extracurriculars?

Quinn Ackerman: I started my mornings with a TED Talk, because who doesn’t love a good life hack? Then I ride to school every day with my best friend, Jas. We’ve been inseparable since kindergarten, when she gave this kid a wedgie for making fun of my Bill Nye the Science Guy lunch box. Jas isn’t too worried about grades, because she’s going to be a professional dancer.

Jasmine Hale: [to Quinn] Come on, hurry up! I have a bio test to fail.

Quinn Ackerman: While Jas was twerking up a storm, I was building an impressive college resume with a well-calculated assortment of AP classes, student government, and I even volunteered at a local nursing home. Anything to make my application fully rejection-proof.

Quinn Ackerman: Okay, so I didn’t have a boyfriend, or a car, or a bustling social calendar, but it was all going to pay off when I got into my dream school, Duke University. I thought I had it all figured out, until one day, everything kind of spun out of control.
[we see Quinn drop her coffee onto the stage light board causing chaos on stage]

Quinn Ackerman: That was a great show today, guys. I thought it was one of our better ones, actually. There was like a couple kinks in there, but, you know, we’ll just work on all that moving forward. Overall, I’m extremely happy.
Julliard Pembroke: Brit’s hair was singed. She’s probably going to have to get bangs now, and she does not have the face for that.

Quinn Ackerman: Juilliard, please, you can’t do this. Look, I’m so sorry.
Julliard Pembroke: Honestly, Quinn, I don’t accept your apology. And I’d like you to pack your things, and clear out your locker
Quinn Ackerman: You can’t expel me. We’re in the same French class.
Julliard Pembroke: Baby, you’re canceled.
Quinn Ackerman: What?
Julliard Pembroke: You’re deleted. You’re unsubscribed. Control, alt, delete.
Quinn Ackerman: I don’t understand.
Julliard Pembroke: You are banished from this room. Do you understand that?

[at her Duke interview]
Quinn Ackerman: I volunteer three afternoons a week at a local nursing home near my house. I’m also student government treasurer. Did I mention head of the AV club?
Veronica Ramirez: I’m going to stop you right there. Student government. AV club. Volunteering. All applicants, nearly identical.
Quinn Ackerman: But do they also play the cello?
Veronica Ramirez: Yes, everybody plays the cello. And nobody likes playing the cello.
Quinn Ackerman: I love the cello.
Veronica Ramirez: Can you do for the cello what Lizzo does for the flute?
Quinn Ackerman: No.

Veronica Ramirez: What are you passionate about? What gets you out of bed in the morning?
Quinn Ackerman: TED Talks.
Veronica Ramirez: Oh, girl. That’s sad. Squirrel friend, are you for real? Have you read a newspaper lately, or even looked at the news? The world is burning. I am looking for applicants that are change-makers, risk-takers. You know what I mean? Not applicants that just like can fill the box. I want an applicant to blow the box up.

Veronica Ramirez: Look, I am just trying to figure out who you are. Who you really are. What’s your passion? What are you passionate about? Passion.
Quinn Ackerman: Duke.
Veronica Ramirez: That’s sad. Unless it’s a guy named Duke that’s really hot, okay? Because it’s just a school. It’s just walls. It’s not passion.

[after Quinn tells Ramirez that she contributes to the school dance team]
Veronica Ramirez: What’s your style?
Quinn Ackerman: I’m sorry?
Veronica Ramirez: Your style of dance, honey. Are you a breaker? Are you a wall climber? Are you into Zumba? You just put on some neon shorts and just do a grapevine? What kind of dance do you do?
Quinn Ackerman: I’m an illuminator.
Veronica Ramirez: Sorry?
Quinn Ackerman: An illuminator.
Veronica Ramirez: Ooh, illuminator. I’ve never heard of that before. That must be really something. What do you do?
Quinn Ackerman: I just, I keep it lit, you know.

Veronica Ramirez: I definitely misread you, Miss Ackerman. I mean, dance team? That takes emotion, power, grit. Here I thought you were all just like resumes and transcripts. You’re the most exciting applicant I’ve seen this week. I’m so happy. I will see you at the Work It Dance Competition, okay?
Quinn Ackerman: You’re going?
Veronica Ramirez: Hell, yes! I wouldn’t miss it.

[after his dance-off with Jas]
Julliard Pembroke: Sashay away, Jasmine. You won’t ever be on my level. Never.

Quinn Ackerman: So, I had to join the dance team. Me. A girl who couldn’t find her own heartbeat, let alone a four-count. When I was five, my mom enrolled me in a ballet class, and I single-handedly ruined our recital. But if there’s one thing I am good at, it’s studying. I just needed the right teacher.

Quinn Ackerman: I need to ask you something, and it’s going to sound absurd at first, but I just need you to bear with me.
Jasmine Hale: No. No. Mm-mm. I am not helping with your science project again, not after you electrocuted me last year.
Quinn Ackerman: It was a very low voltage.
Jasmine Hale: Dude, I couldn’t feel my pinkie for a week!

Quinn Ackerman: Okay, I need you to help me get on the Thunderbirds.
Jasmine Hale: You mean like back on the light board?
Quinn Ackerman: No, I mean like as a dancer.
Jasmine Hale: [laughs] That’s a good one. Why aren’t you laughing?

Jasmine Hale: Dude, you don’t dance.
Quinn Ackerman: I don’t dance yet.
Jasmine Hale: You don’t dance at all. Remember we had a conversation about flossing, and you thought I was talking about oral hygiene?
Quinn Ackerman: We weren’t talking about oral hygiene?
Jasmine Hale: No, we were not.

Quinn Ackerman: Look, I really screwed up my Duke interview, and I may have led the admissions lady to believe that I’m a Thunderbird.
Jasmine Hale: [laughs] What? Why would you do that?
Quinn Ackerman: I don’t know! She kept saying that she wanted to shake things up, and it turns out that I’m a boring robot, with no personal context, and cellos are basic. And Duke doesn’t want boring people.
Jasmine Hale: Well, screw them. Alright? Don’t go.

Jasmine Hale: Quinn, auditions are in two weeks. And more importantly, Juilliard hates you.
Quinn Ackerman: Look, if I’m undeniable, he has no choice but to take me.

[as he notices Quinn at the audition to join Thunderbirds]
Julliard Pembroke: Ew, what are you doing here? I banished you. Trinity, can you sage the space?

[after Quinn’s audition for Thurnderbirds]
Jasmine Hale: Look, she really does need this.
Julliard Pembroke: Well then, she can start her own damn team for all I care.
Quinn Ackerman: Okay. Fine. I will start my own damn team then.
Julliard Pembroke: Well, best of luck. Everyone, where were we?
Quinn Ackerman: And my team will be all about building people up.
Julliard Pembroke: Oh. This is still happening?
Quinn Ackerman: And you know what? Jas is going to be my captain.
Jasmine Hale: [to herself] There it is.
Julliard Pembroke: Say what?

Quinn Ackerman: What side of history do you want to be on?
Jasmine Hale: We have no dancers.
Quinn Ackerman: We will find dancers. I promise you we can do this.

[after agreeing to join Quinn to start a new dance team]
Jasmine Hale: Dude, this may be the dumbest thing I’ve ever done.
Quinn Ackerman: No. What about the sexting incident with that guy Eugene?
Jasmine Hale: Okay, the second dumbest thing I’ve ever done.

Jasmine Hale: Why do I feel so nauseous?
Quinn Ackerman: Hey, calm down! It’s going to be okay.
Jasmine Hale: No, Quinn. I don’t think you understand. A recruiter from the New York Dance Academy is going to be at Work It, which means I need to be there on that stage, killing it.
Quinn Ackerman: You will be. I promise.
Jasmine Hale: Okay, can I get that in writing, please?

Quinn Ackerman: Listen, you just need to sit back, relax, and let me do what I do best.
Jasmine Hale: Which is what? Stress me out?
Quinn Ackerman: No. Research and organization.
Jasmine Hale: Okay, yeah. Both of those words stress me out.

Quinn Ackerman: [to Jas] I’ve gathered up all the ingredients we need to make an award winning dance team. We need an incredible DJ for music, we need a flipper, someone with really great power moves, and most importantly, we need an amazing choreographer. So, I’ve been looking at the previous competition winners, and it’s this guy, Jake Taylor.

Quinn Ackerman: Maybe we could get him to choreograph for us.
Jasmine Hale: Yeah, Quinn. Everybody knows Jake Taylor, alright? He was the best dancer in the state until he tore his ACL. No one has seen or heard from him in like two years. We’d have a better chance at building a time machine and kidnapping a young Channing Tatum.
Quinn Ackerman: I found him.
Jasmine Hale: What? How?
Quinn Ackerman: I checked his old Instagram, checked all his geo-tags, and from there, it was just a simple mapping.
Jasmine Hale: Well, damn, Nancy Drew.

[referring to Jake]
Quinn Ackerman: And now all we have to do is convince him.
Jasmine Hale: Convince this hot stranger you stalked to coach your non-existent dance team.
Quinn Ackerman: Yeah, pretty much.

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Quinn Ackerman: I’m Quinn Ackerman, and I’m starting a dance team at Woodbright High.
Jake Taylor: I’m not interested.
Quinn Ackerman: We would like you to be our choreographer for the following reasons. One, according to my research of every dance movie ever made, we have a very important ingredient for winning, a can-do spirit.
Jake Taylor: [chuckles] That’s not how dance works.
Quinn Ackerman: Well, that’s why we would need you.
Jake Taylor: No, I’m good.

Quinn Ackerman: Okay. Number two, this is your chance to overcome your demons, due to your knee injury.
Jake Taylor: Don’t come back here.
Quinn Ackerman: Okay, fine. We’ll just win the Work It Dance Competition without you then. And you won’t go insane, you know, being slowly eaten up by all that unrealized potential, or whatever.

Jake Taylor: Can-do spirit?
Quinn Ackerman: Mm-hmm.
Jake Taylor: What about skill?
Quinn Ackerman: We’re extremely skilled.
Jake Taylor: [laughs] I can spot a fake anywhere.
Quinn Ackerman: Well, then you must know that I’m the real deal.

Jake Taylor: Why would you enter a competition when you don’t know how to dance?
Quinn Ackerman: Fair question. So I may have lied to the Duke college admissions officer, which means now I have to put my money where my mouth is.
Jake Taylor: Give up. Go to community college. I can’t help you.
Quinn Ackerman: I don’t give up.

Jasmine Hale: So, hey, the Thunderbirds have the best dancers at the school, right?
Quinn Ackerman: Right.
Jasmine Hale: Well, at least the ones who auditioned. So we need to find…
Quinn Ackerman: The diamonds in the rough.
Jasmine Hale: I was going to say, “The ones who don’t audition.” But, yeah. Okay.

[at a Karate class]
Jasmine Hale: Yeah, this guy is supposed to be the best flipper in town.
Quinn Ackerman: He’s like fifty!
Jasmine Hale: No, not him! The one that looks like Conan O’Brien. The guy can flip.

[referring to flipping]
Robby G.: I don’t even remember how I did it.
Quinn Ackerman: Right, but you did it once, which means you can do it again. It’s still somewhere inside of you. We just have to find it. You will flip again.
Jasmine Hale: Catch you on the flip side.

Quinn Ackerman: We found some great new dancers to join our team. We’d still love to have you choreograph. What do you think?
Jake Taylor: I think you still can’t dance.

[after Quinn tells her about the dance team]
Maria Ackerman: Dance team? That sounds fun. It also sounds very time consuming.
Quinn Ackerman: Well, Einstein said, “Time is an illusion.”
Maria Ackerman: Well, Einstein also said, “Worry about your GPA.”

[as Maria is teaching Quinn to drive]
Quinn Ackerman: So, you think I’m ready to leave the parking lot yet?
Maria Ackerman: Definitely not. You need at least another week.
Quinn Ackerman: You said that last week.

Quinn Ackerman: You have each been chosen to be part of a brand new dance crew. Name TBD.
Robby G.: What is TBD?
Quinn Ackerman: It stands for “to be determined”. That’s not our real name. It’s just like an abbreviation.
Priya Singh: The flyer said there would be snacks.
Quinn Ackerman: Which are also TBD, as of right now.

Jasmine Hale: Raven, you’re doing our costumes.
Raven: How do you guys feel about dead cheerleaders?
Jasmine Hale: Quinn, you’re doing our costumes.
Quinn Ackerman: I can do that.

Robby G.: It says here “choreographer”, and then it’s blank.
Quinn Ackerman: Okay, might as well get into it. I’m going to get Jake Taylor to be our choreographer.
Raven: Didn’t he die?
Jake Taylor: No. Here I am, alive and well.

Jake Taylor: Look, I’m not going to waste my time and name if you end up sucking. But I will make you a deal, okay? If you guys can make it past qualifiers on your own, then I’ll choreograph for you. And if you need a place to rehearse for now, you can come to my studio. As long as my boss isn’t around, then you can do your thing there for free.
Jasmine Hale: Wow, okay. Quick question. So, you drove all the way here just to tell us that you weren’t going to waste your time on us?
Jake Taylor: Yeah, well, I wasn’t doing anything right now. That’s why I could come. But generally, I stay pretty busy. We’ll just drop it. Well, I’m going to go.

Quinn Ackerman: What are we doing here?
Jasmine Hale: What? I need a new mattress.
[they look over and see Charlie working]
Quinn Ackerman: Oh, that mattress.

Jasmine Hale: You need to get some game, Quinn.
Quinn Ackerman: What do you mean by that?
Jasmine Hale: You think I don’t see you staring at Jake like he’s a pop quiz?
Quinn Ackerman: Untrue.
Jasmine Hale: You just need to ask him out.
Quinn Ackerman: I don’t even know how to do that.
Jasmine Hale: It’s easy! Just play it cool.

[as she’s attempting to flirt with Charlie]
Jasmine Hale: Hi, there. I am looking for a new mattress.
Charlie: Okay, great. Well, you came to the right place.
Jasmine Hale: Oh, I did, didn’t I? Must be Mr. Right.
Charlie: So, what are you thinking about, in terms of firmness?
Jasmine Hale: So many things.

Jasmine Hale: Would you mind? I want to test the spoon-worthiness of this mattress. My friend here will move out of the way.
Charlie: So you want me to just…
Jasmine Hale: Why don’t you just plop on down?
Charlie: Yeah, okay. Sure. Alright. This is how this works.
[he lies down on the mattress with Jas lying next to him, in spoon position]
Charlie: Okay. This is…
Jasmine Hale: The firmness is…
Charlie: The firmness of the bed is good. Yeah.
Jasmine Hale: Firmness of the bed.
Charlie: I can’t say I’ve done this before.
Jasmine Hale: This is a full experience.

[as they decide to perform in front of an audience]
Quinn Ackerman: We have our audience!
[Quinn brings out a nursing home memeber in his wheelchair]
Jasmine Hale: So this is it?
Quinn Ackerman: They’re screening Fifty Shades of Grey in the media room. But I got Harold.
Jasmine Hale: What’s up, Harold? You didn’t want to watch Fifty Shades of Grey?
Quinn Ackerman: No, he’s not allowed to watch it anymore. Not after what happened last time. Right, Harold? Yeah.

[after Harold dies during their dance performance]
Priya Singh: I’m pretty sure the key to a live audience is keeping them alive.
Robby G.: Poor Harold.
Raven: Why? Death comes to us all.
Quinn Ackerman: You know, it could have been completely unrelated to our performance.
Jasmine Hale: Quinn, our terrible dancing just killed a man. Alright? The sooner we face that fact, the sooner we can ask for forgiveness and move on with our lives.
Quinn Ackerman: Well, then we need to work harder.

[referring to their dance outfit]
Jasmine Hale: Why do we look like a bunch of dental hygienists?
Quinn Ackerman: What? They’re uniforms. I borrowed them from the nursing home.
Jasmine Hale: We look like we’re about to go run a blood drive. Remind me to never to put you in charge of costumes ever again.

[as Thunderbirds turn up to watch TBDs qualifying dance for the competition]
Trinity: And Juilliard’s auditioning for Juilliard this weekend.
Julliard Pembroke: Trinity, I told you not to say anything.
Trinity: You literally told me to say that exact same thing.

[as they’re watching another dance team during their qualifier]
Jasmine Hale: [to Quinn] Are you seeing what I’m seeing?
Raven: Boner.
Julliard Pembroke: Oh, my God.
Jasmine Hale: I think I made direct eye contact.
Quinn Ackerman: Wait. He’s not wearing a dance belt.
Jasmine Hale: Yeah, no s**t, honey.

Quinn Ackerman: I sucked at qualifiers. I’m not kidding. When the judge held up his scorecard, this one was just looking into my soul. Just directly into my soul.
Jake Taylor: Come on, I’m sure it wasn’t that bad.
Quinn Ackerman: It was bad.

Jake Taylor: You guys made it through though.
Quinn Ackerman: Yeah, on a technicality.
Jake Taylor: Well, technically, that counts.
Quinn Ackerman: Maybe you can just hide me in the back for Work It.
Jake Taylor: I could never hide you in the back.

Jake Taylor: I miss dancing.
Quinn Ackerman: So why did you give it up?
Jake Taylor: Because I wanted to be the best, and I wasn’t any more, so.
Quinn Ackerman: What? You’re so good. I can’t dance at all.
Jake Taylor: That’s because you can’t learn to dance by reading a book, Quinn.

Jake Taylor: Why is Duke so important to you that you would do all of this? I mean, it’s just a school.
Quinn Ackerman: My dad went there. He loved it. Like, really, really loved it. It wasn’t always my plan to go. But after he died, I felt like being there would make me connected to him somehow. I don’t know. Maybe it sounds stupid.
Jake Taylor: No, it’s not stupid, Quinn.

Quinn Ackerman: Oh, I don’t remember signing up for a dance lesson tonight.
Jake Taylor: You’re really going to turn down a free lesson from the best dancer in the state?
Quinn Ackerman: Oh, I would never. Do you know him? Is he coming?
Jake Taylor: [laughs] Okay.

[teaching her to dance]
Jake Taylor: You don’t have to be in control all the time. You’re not studying for a midterm, alright? You can’t think your way through this. Quinn, you got to let your body drive you.
Quinn Ackerman: Okay. Show me what to do.

[to Quinn after her night out with Jake]
Jasmine Hale: You’re different. You’re glowing. She’s glowing!

Jake Taylor: Listen up. There’s less than two months until the competition, so we’re already behind. And we’re going on a technicality. Bottom line, we have to be better. If you want to be your best, you have to follow your…
[Jas looks dreamily over to Charlie, who’s serving some customers]
Jasmine Hale: Pecs.
Jake Taylor: …heart. Is she good? Are we good?
Quinn Ackerman: Yep. Yeah, she’s good.

Charlie: Hey, so my manager told me that you guys got to leave.
Jasmine Hale: Oh. Okay, yeah.
Charlie: He also told me that, you know, you can’t come back here anymore if you’re not going to buy anything. Personally like I don’t care.
Jasmine Hale: No, it’s okay. I get it. Thank you for letting us be here though.
Charlie: On the other hand, if you ever need anything, you just call me.
[he gives her his card]
Charlie: That’s my card, my personal number.
Jasmine Hale: I will. It’ll be mattress related.
Charlie: Alright. I’ll hold you to that.
Jasmine Hale: I will use this.

Brit Turner: What happened with your Juilliard audition?
Julliard Pembroke: Oh, I don’t know, Britney. Why don’t you mind your damn business? Sorry, it’s just that they said conservatory dancing is different, and if I want to be taken seriously, I would need to learn to control my fire.
[he starts crying]

[to Trinity; after Julliarf failed his audition for Julliard]
Brit Turner: Do we still call him Juilliard?

[after Julliard gets Jake fired from his job at the dance studio]
Jasmine Hale: Is that how you want to play this, you little psychopath?
Julliard Pembroke: Your outburst is really eating into our rehearsal time, sweetie.
Jasmine Hale: You seriously felt so threatened by us that you had to sabotage our team?
Julliard Pembroke: I didn’t do anything. You do that all on your own.

Jasmine Hale: [to Julliard] This is not over. And you look like a tampon commercial.

[after Quinn finds out Ramirez is leaving Duke’s]
Quinn Ackerman: What happened to shaking things up?
Veronica Ramirez: Yeah. You know what? They really weren’t into that. What can I say? I tried.
Quinn Ackerman: You tried? I learned how to dance.
Veronica Ramirez: I’m sorry. Wait. What did you say?
Quinn Ackerman: I started a dance team for you.
Veronica Ramirez: Good for you, girl. You blew up the box.
Quinn Ackerman: No, I blew up my life!
Veronica Ramirez: You didn’t blow up your life. You blew up your box.
Quinn Ackerman: What does that mean?

[after Quinn decides to quit the dance team]
Jasmine Hale: I did all of this for you, Quinn. I quit the Birds for you. You begged me to. And what? Just because your mom says you have to, you’re going to bail on us?
Quinn Ackerman: I’m really sorry.
Jasmine Hale: Wow. You know, for a second, I thought you actually cared, and you weren’t just using all of us.
Quinn Ackerman: I do care. I still care.
Jasmine Hale: You know, I really hope you get into Duke, Quinn. And I hope it was worth losing your only friend over.

[after Quinn quits the team and they walks away from her]
Quinn Ackerman: You don’t hate me?
Priya Singh: No, I do. I just need to update my Instagram story.
Quinn Ackerman: Are you filming me right now? You’ve been filming this whole time? Stop that.

Jake Taylor: Quinn, I saw Priya’s Instagram. You can’t quit.
Quinn Ackerman: You can’t ghost me and then tell me what to do.
Jake Taylor: You’re right. I was upset, and that’s no excuse. But you have to listen to me. Don’t walk away from this.
Quinn Ackerman: They’ll be better off without me, okay?

Jake Taylor: Everyone is counting on you. You can’t bail on them.
Quinn Ackerman: You’re lecturing me about quitting? Look, I made a promise to my mom. I don’t have time for dance anymore. And I really don’t have time for a boyfriend.

[as Quinn is doing her homework at the nursing home]
Ruthie: You shouldn’t be spending Friday night in this funeral home reading textbooks. You should be out with your friends, getting into trouble.
Quinn Ackerman: Yeah, well, I’ve got plenty of trouble, and no friends. And the only chance I have now at getting into a decent college is by reading these textbooks.

Ruthie: Look at me. You see that guy over there? Max Berman. Harvard Law School. Argued two cases to the Supreme Court.
Quinn Ackerman: Wow.
Ruthie: And Penny Kitz ran the cardiology department at UNC. And look at them now. We all end up in the same place. In a nursing home, falling asleep in front of crappy TV. And the only memories we have are the ones that were like really fun. You know, the times we spent with our friends. Not the schoolwork, or the textbooks.

Quinn Ackerman: I felt it! The thing that you were talking about, about getting out of my head and just dancing. I literally was like stamping books, and it just started happening. And I got out of my head, and I can dance.
Jake Taylor: Quinn, woh, slow down.
Quinn Ackerman: And I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry if I hurt you.
Jake Taylor: It’s okay.
Quinn Ackerman: No, it’s not. Because I thought that dancing would get me into Duke, and Duke was going to make me happy. But dancing makes me really happy. And so do you.

[as Quinn gets the team back together to rehearse in the nursing home]
Quinn Ackerman: Welcome to your new rehearsal space.
Raven: Wow. I can feel Harold’s ghost in here.

[as she finds Quinn and the team dancing]
Nursing Home Dancer: Turn that s**t up!
[she begins dancing with them]

[Quinn sneaks up on Jas in the toilet cubicle]
Quinn Ackerman: Hey.
Jasmine Hale: Quinn, I am on the toilet!
Quinn Ackerman: I know, but this is the only place I could talk to you alone. Listen, I’ve made a lot of mistakes over the past few months.
Jasmine Hale: Can we please just talk about this later?
Quinn Ackerman: But the mistake I regret most of all is hurting you.
Jasmine Hale: I’m drowning you out with my pee. Okay, I’m done.

[after Jas dries her hands under the dryer]
Quinn Ackerman: Ew, how are your hands still wet?
Jasmine Hale: God, I miss paper towels.

Quinn Ackerman: [to Jas] Look, I understand if you don’t want to come back. Because after the way I acted, I don’t blame you. But I just want you to know that you deserve to dance with a group of people that actually care about you. Alright. I’m going to use the bathroom. I’ve had to pee this whole time.

[after their dance practice]
Julliard Pembroke: Trinity, your levels, they were all over the place. And what was with that thing you did after the third count?
Trinity: I thought I’d put a little extra stank on it.
Julliard Pembroke: Oh. Well, if you could please refrain from stanking up the place, that would be lovely.

Quinn Ackerman: Now we just need to figure out this name thing.
Chris Royo: I kind of like TBD.
Priya Singh: Yeah, it’s grown on me.
Robby G.: What does it stand for again?
[Jas walks in]
Jasmine Hale: “To be determined”, which I think really describes us.
Robby G.: You quit the Birds?
Raven: Wait. So you’re rejoining?
Jasmine Hale: You think I was just going to let you guys win Work It without me? Yeah, I’m back.
[Quinn and the others embrace her]

Quinn Ackerman: Beyoncé, Queen Bey, I pray that you make my feet swift tomorrow. May my flow be precise, and may my moves have swagger. In the name of the Single Ladies video, the Lemonade short film, and the Netflix special Homecoming, I pray.

Quinn Ackerman: The next morning I could feel Queen Bey’s light shining down on me. I didn’t know if I would completely humiliate myself onstage, but for the first time, I didn’t care. I felt ready.

Maria Ackerman: Quinn, you lied to me. You blew off your schoolwork. And I don’t care what kind of personal breakthrough you’re having right now. You are not leaving this house!
Quinn Ackerman: Mom?
Maria Ackerman: Yes?
Quinn Ackerman: I’m leaving this house.

[as she’s driving to the competition and getting texts for being late]
Quinn Ackerman: I’m coming, everybody! Okay, I can’t text and drive. I can barely drive.

[after the TBDs win the Work It competition]
Quinn Ackerman: Miss Ramirez! You came.
Veronica Ramirez: Of course I came. You were so good. You illuminated the s**t out of this place!

Veronica Ramirez: I got to tell you, I just got a new position at NYU. Here’s my card. I think you might like it there. Call me. So good!
[Ramirez walks off]
Quinn Ackerman: How does she keep getting jobs?

[after she gets in at New York Dance Academy]
Jasmine Hale: Big Apple, baby!
Quinn Ackerman: I knew you’d get in!
Jasmine Hale: You did? Why didn’t you tell me?
[both laugh]

[to Quinn and Jas]
Julliard Pembroke: I’m really happy for you guys. I’m so bored of winning all the time, right? Anyway, I just thought I’d come over here and say congrats. I’ve changed.

Quinn Ackerman: So what you up to now?
Jasmine Hale: Mm. Well, mama’s getting a new mattress today. Yeah! And it is extra spoon-worthy.

[as she sees Quinn and Jake kissing]
Veronica Ramirez: Aw, look at that! Love is happening all around us, honey. We just have to look for it.

[last lines]
Quinn Ackerman: In the end, Einstein was right. Dancers are the athletes of God. And, as it turns out, I’m one of them. Because it’s actually not that hard to find a four-count, or the beat of your own heart. All you have to do is listen to it. That’s all I’ve got figured out. The rest is TBD.

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