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Michelle Pfeiffer, John Travolta, Christopher Walken, Queen Latifah, Amanda Bynes, Allison Janney, James Marsden, Elijah Kelley, Brittany Snow, Zac Efron, and Nikki Blonsky in Hairspray (2007)

Christopher Walken: Wilbur Turnblad

Hairspray

Christopher Walken credited as playing...

Wilbur Turnblad

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Quotes7

  • Wilbur Turnblad: [to Tracy] This is America, babe, you gotta think big to be big.
  • Edna Turnblad: Big ain't the problem in this family, Wilbur.
  • Amber Von Tussle: I lost, Mom. Let's just deal with it!
  • Velma Von Tussle: [as she pulls the tallies out of her dress] You did not lose! You can not have lost because I switched the damn tallies!
  • Edna Turnblad: [standing behind a live television camera] Smile, Miss Crabcakes! You're on Candid Camera!
  • Wilbur Turnblad: That was a good shot! Don't you think?
  • Wilbur Turnblad: [to a sobbing Edna, who thinks he's been cheating on her] Honey, took me five years to figure out you were flirting!
  • [softly]
  • Wilbur Turnblad: How could I ever?
  • 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.
  • Velma Von Tussle: Incredible! I could do a fan dance with a lettuce leaf and you would remain completely obtuse!
  • Wilbur Turnblad: Obtuse?
  • Velma Von Tussle: Yes, obtuse!
  • Wilbur Turnblad: I flunked geometry...
  • Velma Von Tussle: ...yes, and biology too, no doubt!
  • Wilbur Turnblad: [to Edna, as she resists the urge to jump onto the stage and dance] Do it now! Or forever wish you had!
  • Wilbur Turnblad: This heart only beats for size 60.

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