- [Repeated line, when Tori performs the Bird Scene]
- Tori Vega: It was 1934 when my husband left me... alone. Living on the prairie was a dreary existence. No telephone, no radio, only a large majestic bird with whom I shared my feelings. One day when I was feeling low, I said to him, "Oh, bird. You can fly. You can soar miles from this lonley place, and yet you stay. Why?" And apparently, that question rang true, for that afternoon my bird left. And so went my spirit.
- Cat: Hey, Sikowitz, I forget to ask a question about the homework...
- [Mr. Sikowitz throws a ball at her and Cat runs off, screaming. To Tori]
- Mr. Sikowitz: We'll never know her question.
- [to Sikowitz, upset after learning that she still failed the Bird Scene despite performing it three times in class]
- Tori Vega: Look, I know that you're a great acting teacher and everything, but I don't care what you think. The scene I just did was good, and I'm proud of it no matter what anybody thinks.
- [the class applauds]
- Tori Vega: What?
- Mr. Sikowitz: You just passed the Bird Scene!
- [the class cheer and applaud again. To Sikowitz]
- Tori Vega: But... but you said...
- Mr. Sikowitz: Tori, the whole point of The Bird Scene is to teach a performer, like yourself, to believe in their own choices no matter what others say. We are artists, and a true artist doesn't need approval from others. A true artist only needs to please himself, or herself, or itself.
- [as Tori is performing the Bird Scene for the third time in class]
- Mr. Sikowitz: You see the bird too, right?
- Beck Oliver: Yeah.
- Mr. Sikowitz: Fantastic.
- Lane Alexander: Hey, Andre, Robbie!
- [Andre stops playing the keyboard on his locker]
- Lane Alexander: That squirrel's back in my office again.
- Andre: I'll get the net.
- Robbie: I'll get the nuts.
- Tori Vega: So, all three times I did the scene...
- Mr. Sikowitz: Were delightful. It was only wrong when you asked if it was right.