Hairspray (2007)
Nikki Blonsky: Tracy Turnblad
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Quotes
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Tracy Turnblad : Negro Day's the best! I wish every day were Negro Day!
Seaweed : At our house... it is.
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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.
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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.
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Tracy Turnblad : I think I've kind of been in a bubble... thinking that fairness was gonna just happen. It's not. People like me are gonna have to get up off their fathers' laps and go out and fight for it.
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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]
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Tracy Turnblad : People who are different, their time is coming!
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Corny Collins : I'd like to welcome our new council member, Miss Tracy Turnblad! Tracy, cozy up to ol' Corny and tell us a little bit about yourself
Tracy Turnblad : Well, I watch the Corny Collins show everyday and I do nothing else!
Corny Collins : Oh!
Tracy Turnblad : I also hope to be the first female president... or a rockette!
Corny Collins : As your first act as president, what would you do?
Tracy Turnblad : Hmm...
[ponders]
Tracy Turnblad : ... I'd make everyday Negro Day!
Corny Collins : I read you like tomorrow's headlines!
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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.
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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!
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Tracy Turnblad : I'm a bad, bad girl who needs to be punished.
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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.
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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!
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[singing]
Tammy : Are you scared we're on live?
Tracy Turnblad : No, I'm sure I can cope.
Amber Von Tussle : Well, this show isn't broadacst in...
Tammy , Amber Von Tussle , Shelley , Noreen , Doreen , Vicki , Darla , Becky : [with the other council girls] Cinemascope!
Velma Von Tussle : I never drank one chocolate malt. No desserts for Miss Baltimore Crabs.
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Edna Turnblad : First the hair, now this?
Wilbur Turnblad : But, all the kids are battin' up their hair now, hon.
Edna Turnblad : [to Wilbur] You're no help.
Tracy Turnblad : It's ratting, daddy.
[to Edna]
Tracy Turnblad : And our first lady, Jacqueline Kennedy does it!
Edna Turnblad : I don't believe that.
Tracy Turnblad : What do you mean you don't believe that? How else would it look that way?
Edna Turnblad : I believe that it is naturally stiff.
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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.
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Velma Von Tussle : [disgusted] Oh!
[forces a smile]
Velma Von Tussle : Mrs. Turnblad! I'd know whose mother you were ANYWHERE.
[notices Edna's outfit]
Velma Von Tussle : Oh, let me guess - new dress?
Edna Turnblad : [nods, shyly but proudly]
Velma Von Tussle : Well... you'll stop traffic!
[laughs]
Edna Turnblad : [looks away, crushed]
Velma Von Tussle : It was nice meeting you... Tracy.
[struts away with Amber, as Edna starts crying]
Tracy Turnblad : Mama, don't you DARE listen to a word she says!
[Edna appears not to hear her]
Tracy Turnblad : Come on! She's just worried that I'm going to win the Miss Teenage Hairspray contest!
Edna Turnblad : [stops crying immediately and looks at Tracy, impressed] ... Really?
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[first lines]
Tracy Turnblad : [singing] Oh, oh, oh, woke up today, feeling the way I always do. Oh, oh, oh, hungry for something that I can't eat. Then I hear that beat. That rhythm of town starts calling me down. It's like a message from high above. Oh, oh, oh, pulling me out to the smiles and the streets that I love. Good morning, Baltimore!
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Link Larkin : That's my shot, Trace.
Tracy Turnblad : But, it's whats right.
Link Larkin : I'm sorry, Trace. I just think this adventure is a little too big for me.
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Edna Turnblad : No one is auditioning for anything in this household!
Tracy Turnblad : But why not? Why not?
Edna Turnblad : Dancing is not your future. One day, you're going to own Edna's Occidental Laundry.
Tracy Turnblad : I don't want to be a laundress. I want to be famous.
Edna Turnblad : If you want to be famous, learn how to take blood out of car upholstery. That's a skill you can take right to the bank.
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Mr. Pinky : There's my shining star! Fantastic to meet you! I'm Mr. Pinky
Tracy Turnblad : It's so nice to meet you!
Mr. Pinky : Tracy, is this your older sister?
Edna Turnblad : Oh!
[chuckles]
Mr. Pinky : Perhaps you both would like some complimentary couture?
[hands them a tray of doughnuts]
Edna Turnblad : Couture?
Mr. Pinky : [presents Edna with Tracy's spokesgirl contract] Now, if you could just sign here...
Edna Turnblad : Flattery will not distract Miss Turnblad's agent from reading the fine print!
Mr. Pinky : [flabbergasted] Her agent?
Edna Turnblad : [hands Tracy the food tray] Tracy, eat your doughnuts.
[to Mr. Pinky]
Edna Turnblad : Let's talk...