Hairspray (1988)

Ricki Lake: Tracy Turnblad

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Quotes 

• Tracy Turnblad : Oh, Link. This is so romantic. l wish - l wish l was dark-skinned.

  Link Larkin : Tracy, our souls are black, even though our skin is white.

• Iggy : Would you swim in an integrated swimming pool?

  Tracy Turnblad : I sure would, Iggy. I'm a modern kind of girl, I'm all for integration.

• Tracy Turnblad : How do you get your hair so straight and so flat?

  Beatnik Chick : With an iron, man. I play my bongos, listen to Odetta, and then I iron my hair. Dig?

• Tracy Turnblad : Mama, welcome to the sixties.

• Amber Von Tussle : Aren't you a little fat for the show?

  Tammy : That's enough, Amber.

  Tracy Turnblad : I would imagine many of the other home viewers are also pleasantly plump or chunky.

  Amber Von Tussle : Oh, come on. The show's not filmed in Cinemascope.

• Tracy Turnblad : Oh, Mother you're so fifties.

• 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.

• Tracy Turnblad : I'm an integrationist. We shall overcome someday.

  Beatnik Chick : Not with that hair, you won't.

• Tracy Turnblad : I'm so happy. Finally, all of Baltimore knows: I'm big, blonde, and beautiful!

• Geometry Student : I can't see through her hair.

  Tracy Turnblad : I can't help it if he's short.

  Geometry Teacher : You're ratted hair is preventing yet another student's geometry education.

  Tracy Turnblad : It's feathered, not ratted.

  Geometry Teacher : Whatever you call it, it's a hair don't. You've been warned repeatedly. I want you to take a little walk down to the principle's office. Let's see what he has to say

• [last lines] 

  Tracy Turnblad : Let's dance!

• Tracy Turnblad : Police Brutality! Police Brutality!

• Tracy Turnblad : [to Penny]  Penny, they put me in Special Ed just because of my hair.

• [first lines] 

  Tracy Turnblad : Come on! Come on!

  Penny Pingleton : Okay, all right.

  Tracy Turnblad : Will you hurry up?

• Tracy Turnblad : I'm home.

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

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

• Principal Davidson : Once again, your hairdo is getting you in hot water. Didn't two weeks in hairdo detention have any effect?

  Tracy Turnblad : l happen to be the height of teen fashion.

  Principal Davidson : You're on a one-way ticket to reform school.

• Tracy Turnblad : Hey, Penny, see the colored boy - the cute one? His mother is Motormouth Maybelle!

  Penny Pingleton : He's gorgeous!

• Tracy Turnblad : Two, four, six, eight. TV's got to integrate! Two, four, six, eight. TV's got to integrate! Two, four, six, eight. TV's got to integrate!

• Motormouth Maybelle : Ooh, Papa tuney, we got a loony.

  Prudence Pingleton : Don't you try any of your voodoo spells on me, you native woman!

  Penny Pingleton : We're just dancing!

  Tracy Turnblad : Mrs. Pingleton, stop acting crazy! These are our friends.

• Tracy Turnblad : Stuck-up little spastic.

  Penny Pingleton : She's such a queer.

• Beatnik Chick : Let's do some reefer. We'll get high, and l'll iron the chicks' hair.

  Beatnik Cat (special apperances) : Reefer?

  Tracy Turnblad : Drugs?

  Beatnik Chick : Locoweed.