Hairspray (1988)

Divine: Edna Turnblad, Arvin Hodgepile

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• Edna Turnblad : [about Amber]  I watch that tramp and I'm embarrassed to be white.

• Wilbur : Maybe Tracy could be some sort of campus leader.

  Edna Turnblad : Wilbur, it's the times. They're a-changin'. Something's blowin' in the wind. Fetch me my diet pills, would you, hon?

• Velma Von Tussle : Hey you. Can I ask you a personal question?

  Edna Turnblad : No, you may not.

  Velma Von Tussle : Is your daughter mulatto?

• Edna Turnblad : Tracy, I have told you about that hair. All ratted up like a teenage Jezebel!

  Penny Pingleton : Tracy's flamboyant flip is all the rage, Ms. Edna. Jackie Kennedy, our First Lady, even rats her hair.

  Edna Turnblad : But Tracy ain't no First Lady. Are your Tracy? No siree. She's a hair hopper, that's what she is!

• Amber Von Tussle : That girl's got roaches in her hair!

  Edna Turnblad : Roaches? Our little Tracy's a clean teen!

  Wilbur : There's no bugs on our baby!

  Amber Von Tussle : I'm not kidding. I just saw one!

• Tracy Turnblad : Mother, we're watching "The Corny Collins Show".

  Edna Turnblad : Penny, your mother called all frantic. She said you are punished.

  Penny Pingleton : I'm always punished.

• Edna Turnblad : Could you turn that racket down? I'm trying to iron in here.

• Wilbur : Tracy, did you do your chores around the house today?

  Edna Turnblad : Not Miss Tracy, Cyd Charisse herself. She's too busy ratting her hair and doing the Ubangi stomp.

• Edna Turnblad : Penny, you better go home now, your mother just called here all frantic.

• Edna Turnblad : I've got hampers of laundry and my diet pill is wearing off!

• Mrs. Malinski : It ain't right to be dancing on TV to that colored music.

  Edna Turnblad : She's just a teenager.

• Edna Turnblad : Now what? More soiled laundry for Mommy, l suppose.

• Edna Turnblad : Stick with me, and we'll claw our way to the top!

  Tracy Turnblad : Oh, God! Fame, fortune, glamour.

• Edna Turnblad : Could you throw in a pair of complimentary pettipants in the deal?

  Mr. Pinky : You drive a hard bargain, Miss Edna, and rightfully so. Pettipants, pettigirdle, you just let Tracy take her pick.

• Principal Davidson : Starting today, you report to class 10-D, room 108.

  Edna Turnblad : Special Ed?

  Principal Davidson : Yes, Miss Turnblad, special education.

  Edna Turnblad : But that's for retards - and the black kids you try to hold back.

  Principal Davidson : Here, you will be taught by specialists trained to deal with hairdo scoff laws in high school society.

• Penny Pingleton : Miss Edna, can I come in? There's something you've both got to see.

  Edna Turnblad : Well, yeah, come on up; but, I've got ironing and Wilbur's working.

  Penny Pingleton : Mr. Turnblad!

  Edna Turnblad : It's not war with Cuba, is it? Or more negro problems?

  Penny Pingleton : No. You'll see.

  Edna Turnblad : Did poor Debbie Reynolds have a nervous breakdown? This better be good.

• Mrs. Shipley : Where'd a white girl learn how to dance like that?

  Edna Turnblad : Just practicing. Oh, and watching Negro Day on Corny Collins.