Hairspray (1988 film) Quotes

Hairspray (1988 film) is a television program that first aired in 1970 . Hairspray ended its run in 1970.

It features John Waters as producer, Kenny Vance in charge of musical score, and David Boner as head of cinematography.

Hairspray (1988 film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Hairspray (1988 film) is 92 minutes long. Hairspray (1988 film) is distributed by New Line Cinema.

The cast includes: Jo Ann Havrilla as Prudence, Ruth Brown as Motormouth Maybelle, Jo Ann Havrilla as Prudence Pingleton, Divine as Tracy Turnblad, Jerry Stiller as Wilbur, Vitamin C as Amber Von Tussle, Divine as Edna Turnblad, Debbie Harry as Velma Von Tussle, Leslie Ann Powers as Penny Pingleton, Debbie Harry as Velma Van Tussle, Josh Charles as Iggy, Vitamin C as Amber Van Tussle, Mink Stole as Tammy, Alan J. Wendl as Mr. Pinky, Michael St. Gerard as Link Larkin, Sonny Bono as Franklin von Tussle, and Sonny Bono as Amber Von Tussle, Franklin von Tussle.

Hairspray (1988 film) Quotes

Debbie Harry as Velma Van Tussle

• (Debbie Harry) "Hey you. Can I ask you a personal question?"
• (Divine) "No, you may not --"
• (Debbie Harry) "Is your daughter mulatto?"

• (Debbie Harry) "And you HAD to pick a colored song, didn't you? You got something against Connie Francis? Shelley Fabares? I LOVE Shelley Fabares."
• (Vitamin C) "Mother, Shake a Tail Feather has a wild song. It's got a good beat and you can dance to it."

• (Debbie Harry) "Relax. Take it easy. Tension is the worst thing for a complexion."

• (Debbie Harry) "That fat girl's no competition."
• (Sonny Bono) "White trash. Pure and simple."

• (Debbie Harry) "At least try to act white on television."

Vitamin C as Amber Von Tussle

• (Vitamin C) "That girl's got roaches in her hair."
• (Divine) "Roaches? Our little Tracy's a clean teen."
• (Jerry Stiller) "There's no bugs on our baby."
• (Vitamin C) "I'm not kidding, I just saw one."

• (Vitamin C) "Do you relate to the music of Leslie Gore?"
• (Unnamed) "Look, she ain't no James Brown -- but I can dance to Lawrence Welk if I have to."

• (Vitamin C) "Aren't you a little fat for the show?"
• (Divine) "I'm sure many of the other home viewers out there are pleasantly plump or chunky."
• (Vitamin C) "Come on. The show's not filmed in Cinemascope."

• (Vitamin C) "Are you now or have you ever gone steady?"

• (Vitamin C) "Tracy Turnblad is a human roach nest."

• (Vitamin C) "Anyway, she was right there in the car, in plain sight of just everybody at the hop. She was NUDE."
• (Amber's school friend #1) "No."
• (Amber's school friend #2) "That fat thing?"
• (Vitamin C) "Tracy Turnblad is a WHORE."

Divine as Tracy Turnblad

• (Divine) "I'm an integrationist. We shall overcome someday."
• (Unnamed) "Not with that hair, you won't."

• (Divine) "Now all of Baltimore will know -- I'm big, blonde and beautiful."

• (Divine) "It's the times. They are a-changin'. Something's blowing in the wind. Fetch me my diet pills, would you, Hon?"

• (Divine) "Penny, they put me i Special Ed just because of my hair."

• (Divine) "Our little Tracy's too busy ratting her hair and doing the "Ubangi Stomp.""

• (Divine) "Oh, Mother. You're so fifties."

• (Divine) "I'm all for integration."

• (Divine) "I would imagine that many of the home viewers are also pleasantly plump or chunky."
• (Vitamin C) "Oh, come on. This show's not filmed in CinemaScope."

• (Divine) "Tracy, I have told you about that hair. All ratted up like a teenage Jezebel."
• (Leslie Ann Powers) "Tracy's "flamboyant flip" is all the rage, Miss Edna. Jackie Kennedy, our First Lady, even rats her hair."
• (Divine) "But Tracy ain't no First Lady, are your Tracy? No siree. She's a hair hopper, that's what she is."

• (Divine) "POLICE BRUTALITYYY. POLICE BRUTALITYYYYYY."

• (Divine) "Momma, welcome to the sixties."

• (Unnamed) "Tracy Turnblad, once again your ratted hair is preventing another student's geometry education."
• (Divine) "It's feathered, not ratted."
• (Unnamed) "Whatever you call it, it's a hair-don't."

• (Divine) "How do you get your hair so straight and so flat?"
• (Unnamed) "With an iron, man. I play my bongos, listen to Odetta, and then I iron my hair, dig?"

• (Unnamed) "I can't see through her hair."
• (Divine) "I can't help it if he's short."
• (Unnamed) "You're ratted hair is preventing yet another student's geometry education."
• (Divine) "It's feathered, not ratted."
• (Unnamed) "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"

Alan J. Wendl as Mr. Pinky

• (Alan J. Wendl) "Fatty, fatty, two-by-four. Can't get through the dressing room door?"

Ruth Brown as Motormouth Maybelle

• (Ruth Brown) "Oh Papa Tooney. We've got a Looney."
• (Jo Ann Havrilla) "Don't you try to cast one of your voodoo spells on me, native woman."

Jerry Stiller as Wilbur

• (Jerry Stiller) "Tracy, we all have responsibilities in life. You may think owning the Hardy-Har joke shop is all drudgery; unwrapping dribble glasses, checking doggy doo, but I wuv it."

Jo Ann Havrilla as Prudence Pingleton

• (Jo Ann Havrilla) "Oh my God. There's colored people in my house. I'm going to make a citizen's arrest."

• (Jo Ann Havrilla) "Penny Pingleton, you know you are punished. From now on you're wearing a giant P on your blouse EVERY DAY to school so that the whole world knows that Penny Pingleton is permanently, positively, punished."

Josh Charles as Iggy

• (Josh Charles) "Would you swim in an integrated swimming pool?"
• (Divine) "I sure would, Iggy. I'm a modern kind of girl, I'm all for integration."

• (Josh Charles) "Would you ever swim in an integrated swimming pool?"

Leslie Ann Powers as Penny Pingleton

• (Unnamed) "Are you a checkerboard chick, you know, black and white, salt and pepper"
• (Leslie Ann Powers) "Yes, I'm a checkerboard chick, I guess"

• (Leslie Ann Powers) "I wish I was at a hootenanny in Harlem."

• (Leslie Ann Powers) "I'm just a little nervous."
• (Mink Stole) "This is show business young lady. If you're nervous now, Hah. Wait 'til you're on the air."

Mink Stole as Tammy

• (Mink Stole) "Please wait outside. The council will now meet in secret, debate your personality flaws, and come to a final decision."

Sonny Bono as Amber Von Tussle, Franklin von Tussle

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