Tracy Turnblad Quotes in Hairspray (2007)

Tracy Turnblad: Negro Day's the best! I wish every day were Negro Day!

Seaweed: At our house... it is.

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.

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]

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.

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!

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!

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: 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.

Tracy Turnblad: People who are different, their time is coming!

Tracy Turnblad: I'm a bad, bad girl who needs to be punished.

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.

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?

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.

[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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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...

[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!

Tracy Turnblad: Mama, welcome to the sixties.

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: Oh, Link I wish I had dark skin.

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

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: 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?

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

Tracy Turnblad: I'm sure many of the other home viewers out there are pleasantly plump or chunky.

Amber Von Tussle: Come on. The show's not filmed in Cinemascope.

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

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

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

[last lines]

Tracy Turnblad: Let's dance!

Tracy Turnblad: Police Brutality! Police Brutality!

[first lines]

Tracy Turnblad: Come on! Come on!

Penny Pingleton: Okay, all right.

Tracy Turnblad: Will you hurry up?

Tracy Turnblad: Now all of Baltimore will know 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

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

Tracy Turnblad: I'm home.