Hairspray (2007)

Amanda Bynes: Penny Pingleton

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Quotes 

• Motormouth Maybelle : [to Seaweed and Penny]  Oh, so this is love?

  [pauses, then smiles] 

  Motormouth Maybelle : Well, love is a gift, a lot of people don't remember that. So, you two better brace yourselves for a whole lotta ugly comin' at you from a neverending parade of stupid.

  Penny Pingleton : [deadpans]  So, you've met my mom?

• Penny Pingleton : [looks into the camera]  I am now a checkerboard chick!

  [grabs Seaweed and kisses him passionately] 

• Penny Pingleton : Without that show I have nothing!

  Prudy Pingleton : Having nothing builds character!

• Seaweed : Livin' in the ghetto, black is everywhere you go. Who'd have thought I'd love a girl whose skin was white as winter snow?

  Penny Pingleton : In my ivory tower, life was just a Hostess snack, but now I've tasted chocolate, and I'm never goin' back!

• Penny Pingleton : Oh, no!

  Tracy Turnblad : What?

  Penny Pingleton : Your hair deflated!

  Tracy Turnblad : Let it. It was just a symbol of my conformity to the man.

  Penny Pingleton : You are so tough.

• Penny Pingleton : Seaweed? Shhh, don't let her hear you!

  Seaweed : What happened to you?

  Penny Pingleton : [sighs]  She's punishing me for harboring a fugitive without her permission. What are you doing?

  Seaweed : I'm here to rescue the fair maiden, baby.

  [kisses Penny] 

  Penny Pingleton : Oh, Seaweed, you do care! I was afraid the colors of our skin would keep us apart.

  Seaweed : No... but these knots might.

  [still trying to untie her] 

  Seaweed : Was your mom in the Navy?

• Motormouth Maybelle : Well, looks like y'all took a step outta bounds.

  [to Seaweed] 

  Motormouth Maybelle : Who've we got here?

  Seaweed : Mom, I want you to meet my new friends. This here is Link, Tracy Turnblad...

  Tracy Turnblad : [interrupts]  This is just so afro-tastic!

  Seaweed : And this young lady right here, is Penny Pingleton.

  Penny Pingleton : I'm very pleased and scared to be here.

  Motormouth Maybelle : Now, honey, we got more reason to be scared on your street.

• Corny Collins : Roll Call!

  Council Members : I'm Amber! Brad! Tammy! Fender! Brenda! Sketch! Shelley! IQ! Lou Ann! Joey! Mikey! Vicki! Becky! Bix! Jesse! Darla! Paulie! Noreen! Doreen! And I'm... Link!

  Tracy Turnblad , Penny Pingleton : [scream from home in front of their TV] 

• Penny Pingleton : [after Tracy is rejected by Velma and the Council Members]  I think they secretly liked you.

• Seaweed : My mom's havin' a platter party tonight. Y'all wanna come check it out?

  Tracy Turnblad : Now?

  Penny Pingleton : Would you mind if I, too, checked it out? I've never been to North Avenue before.

  Link Larkin : Uh... well, would it be safe, you know... for us?

  Seaweed : Calm down, cracker boy, it's cool.

  Penny Pingleton : Wow! Being invited places by colored people!

  Tracy Turnblad : It feels so hip!

  Seaweed : I'm glad y'all feel that way, 'cause, uh, not many people do.

• Tracy Turnblad : Penny, the cops are looking for me everywhere... you could go to jail for helping me!

  Penny Pingleton : Tracy, I'm already in jail. Come on!

• Prudy Pingleton : Get the jump rope, Penny.

  Penny Pingleton : [runs out of the room]  Mom, not the jump rope!

  Prudy Pingleton : [to Tracy]  Don't you touch my canned tuna!

• Penny Pingleton : [about Amber]  Plastic little spastic.

• Penny Pingleton : Mom, please don't send my best friend to the big house!

  Prudy Pingleton : [grabs Penny]  Penny, hush!

  Tracy Turnblad : You haven't heard the last of me, Mrs. Pingleton! Things need to change, and I won't stop trying to change them. I don't care how long it takes.

  Prudy Pingleton : Good! You'll be waiting twenty to life.

• Link Larkin , Tracy Turnblad , Penny Pingleton , Seaweed : [ending the song "Without Love"]  Darlin' you had best believe me, never leave me without love!

  Edna Turnblad : [called from off camera]  Link, your pork is ready!

• [from trailer] 

  Penny Pingleton : [to Tracy, at the dance]  Get out there and show them!

• Penny Pingleton : I don't know why we have this room, but there's food, water, a bed, gas mask, Russian language books...

  Tracy Turnblad : ...and it's really well insulated.

• Prudy Pingleton : [about Tracy, who was just on the news]  You see? You see! If I let you leave the house right now, you'd be in prison, fighting whores for cigarettes. That Tracy Turnblad always was a bad influence! Well, you are never, ever gonna see that beehived harlot again.

  Penny Pingleton : [sees Tracy in the window, gets up to leave]  Okay, mother. Excuse me.

  Prudy Pingleton : Penny!

  [offers her a rosary] 

  Prudy Pingleton : Pray for her. She's gonna need it.

• Prudy Pingleton : [tying Penny to her bed with a jump rope, as Penny stoically says nothing] 

  Prudy Pingleton : Penny Lou Pingleton, you are absolutely, positively, permanently punished. You will live on a diet of saltines and Tang, and you will never leave this room again.

  Prudy Pingleton : [tosses holy water on Penny]  Devil child, devil child!

  Penny Pingleton : [glowers at her mother] 

• Motormouth Maybelle : [to Seaweed; about Tracy]  You tryin' to hide her here?

  Seaweed : Uh.

  Motormouth Maybelle : Why you ain't think-a that before? Everything she done for us. Where your manners at, boy?

  [smacks Seaweed in the face] 

  Seaweed : Ow! Well, I don't know.

  Motormouth Maybelle : [points to Penny]  And what about this one?

  Little Inez : [singsong]  Seaweed's got a girlfriend.

  Seaweed : Inez, shut up.

  Little Inez : You.

  Motormouth Maybelle : Oh, so this is love?

  [pauses] 

  Motormouth Maybelle : Well, love is a gift, a lot of people don't remember that. So, you two better brace yourselves for a whole lotta ugly comin' at you from a neverending parade of stupid.

  Penny Pingleton : So you've met my mom?