Ricki Lake credited as playing...
Tracy Turnblad
- 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?
- 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: 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.
- 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
- [first lines]
- Tracy Turnblad: Come on! Come on!
- Penny Pingleton: Okay, all right.
- Tracy Turnblad: Will you hurry up?
- 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.