Hairspray (2007)

Allison Janney: Prudy Pingleton

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Quotes 

• Penny Pingleton : Without that show I have nothing!

  Prudy Pingleton : Having nothing builds character!

• 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 : 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.

• Prudy Pingleton : [to Penny]  Wait till your father gets out of prison, you'll see more than a jump rope!

• 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]