Queen Latifah credited as playing...
Motormouth Maybelle
- Motormouth Maybelle: [to Seaweed and Penny] Oh, so this is love?
- [pauses, then smiles]
- Motormouth Maybelle: Well, love is a gift, a lot of people don't remember that. So, you two better brace yourselves for a whole lotta ugly comin' at you from a neverending parade of stupid.
- Penny Pingleton: [deadpans] So, you've met my mom?
- Motormouth Maybelle: [watching Edna walk in] If we get any more white people in here, this is gonna be a suburb.
- Velma Von Tussle: [after "New Girl in Town"] How dare you pick the same song!
- Motormouth Maybelle: They wrote it.
- 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.
- [from trailer]
- Motormouth Maybelle: [to Edna] Are you sure you wouldn't like to have a little something to eat?
- Edna Turnblad: [looks at pot roast] Is that braised?
- Motormouth Maybelle: [singing] Oh, oh, oh... you can't stop today as it comes speeding down the track! Child, yesterday is history, and it's never coming back! 'Cause tomorrow is a brand new day, and it don't know white from black! 'Cause the world keeps spinnin' 'round and 'round, and my heart's keepin' time to the speed of sound... I was lost 'till I heard the drums and I found my way, 'cause you can't stop the beat!
- Motormouth Maybelle: [to Seaweed; about Tracy] You tryin' to hide her here?
- Seaweed: Uh.
- Motormouth Maybelle: Why you ain't think-a that before? Everything she done for us. Where your manners at, boy?
- [smacks Seaweed in the face]
- Seaweed: Ow! Well, I don't know.
- Motormouth Maybelle: [points to Penny] And what about this one?
- Little Inez: [singsong] Seaweed's got a girlfriend.
- Seaweed: Inez, shut up.
- Little Inez: You.
- Motormouth Maybelle: Oh, so this is love?
- [pauses]
- Motormouth Maybelle: Well, love is a gift, a lot of people don't remember that. So, you two better brace yourselves for a whole lotta ugly comin' at you from a neverending parade of stupid.
- Penny Pingleton: So you've met my mom?