Gregory Hines credited as playing...
Sandman Williams
- Sandman Williams: Those Fays at the Cotton Club know what they're lookin' at.
- Clay Williams: They'll be lookin' at us dance! Look, you start givin' white people what you think they want, soon you got no blood left. Today, we audition for the Cotton Club with what we know.
- Irving Stark: I'm gonna put you in the next show.
- Sandman Williams: We're in the next show?
- Irving Stark: You're in the next show.
- Sandman Williams: We got it?
- Irving Stark: Yeah.
- Sandman Williams: We got it! Thanks. Listen, you white folks are so smart.
- Clay Williams: Stop showin' off.
- Sandman Williams: Showin' off is how you get to be a star up there, brother.
- Lila Rose Oliver: I have too many things I need to do. I want to make it. I mean, really make it. I want to do Broadway.
- Sandman Williams: You want to do white show business.
- Lila Rose Oliver: Well, isn't that what it is?
- Sandman Williams: Listen, we're gonna get an act together. We're gonna go right up to the top of the ladder. Collect all that jack, together.
- Mike Best: What are you doing here?
- Sandman Williams: I'm with the company. I just spoke with Mr. Stark.
- Mike Best: I don't care what Mr. Stark says. If you're with the company, you belong to me. You don't use that front door. You use the back door. And don't let it happen again!
- Suger Coates: Listen, There's only one way to get with a guy like Mike Best, treat him like a fire plug. Piss on him! Piss on him.
- Bumpy Rhodes: Listen to the man.
- Sandman Williams: I'll piss on his fuckin' grave, Sugar!
- Mike Best: What are you doing up here?
- Sandman Williams: [with Lila Rose] We're gonna talk to one another. We just wanna...
- Mike Best: I know what you're coming up here for. You're gonna fornicate like two dogs.
- Sandman Williams: Mike, we just want to talk.
- Mike Best: You don't belong up here. Get down.
- Sandman Williams: You got people thinkin' you're white.
- Lila Rose Oliver: When I want. Remember, I told you about my private life and a lawyer.
- Sandman Williams: Why do you do it?
- Lila Rose Oliver: Because I can.
- Sandman Williams: So what?
- Lila Rose Oliver: So stop judging me about it!
- Sandman Williams: [singing] Here is where we have a showdown, I'm too high hat, You're too low down...
- Sandman Williams, Clay Williams: [singing] What's the use of prohibition, You produce the same condition,
- Clay Williams: Crazy rhythm, I've gone crazy too...
- Mike Best: [caught kissing Lila Rose] Look, I'm just a new dancer here. I'm trying to meet people.
- Sandman Williams: Well, you better watch your act around here, nigger. You don't handle the merchandise.