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Hairspray (1988)
Leslie Ann Powers: Penny Pingleton
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Quotes
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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!
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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.
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Penny Pingleton : I wish I was at a hootenanny in Harlem.
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Penny Pingleton : I'm just a little nervous.
Tammy : This is show business young lady. If you're nervous now. Hah. Wait 'til you're on the air.
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Beatnik Chick : You two, checkerboard chick?
Penny Pingleton : What?
Beatnik Chick : You know, black and white? Salt and pepper?
Penny Pingleton : Well, yes, I'm a checkerboard chick, I guess
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Penny Pingleton : Segregation never! lntegration now!
Penny Pingleton , Mrs. Shipley , L'il Inez : Segregation never! lntegration now! Segregation never! lntegration now! Segregation never! lntegration now! Segregation never! lntegration now!
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[first lines]
Tracy Turnblad : Come on! Come on!
Penny Pingleton : Okay, all right.
Tracy Turnblad : Will you hurry up?
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Penny Pingleton : Look at her hair. Gosh, l wish mine was that high.
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Tracy Turnblad : Hey, Penny, see the colored boy - the cute one? His mother is Motormouth Maybelle!
Penny Pingleton : He's gorgeous!
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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.
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Penny Pingleton : [kiss] Oh, Seaweed, will integration ever come?
Seaweed : Oh, Penny, my little white lily, we're outcast from both societies: black, white. Our love is taboo.
Penny Pingleton : Oh, go to second! Go to second!
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Tracy Turnblad : Stuck-up little spastic.
Penny Pingleton : She's such a queer.
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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.