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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)

Allison Janney: Prudy Pingleton

Hairspray

Allison Janney credited as playing...

Prudy Pingleton

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Quotes6

  • Penny Pingleton: Without that show I have nothing!
  • Prudy Pingleton: Having nothing builds character!
  • Prudy Pingleton: Get the jump rope, Penny.
  • Penny Pingleton: [runs out of the room] Mom, not the jump rope!
  • Prudy Pingleton: [to Tracy] Don't you touch my canned tuna!
  • 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.
  • Prudy Pingleton: [to Penny] Wait till your father gets out of prison, you'll see more than a jump rope!
  • Prudy Pingleton: [about Tracy, who was just on the news] You see? You see! If I let you leave the house right now, you'd be in prison, fighting whores for cigarettes. That Tracy Turnblad always was a bad influence! Well, you are never, ever gonna see that beehived harlot again.
  • Penny Pingleton: [sees Tracy in the window, gets up to leave] Okay, mother. Excuse me.
  • Prudy Pingleton: Penny!
  • [offers her a rosary]
  • Prudy Pingleton: Pray for her. She's gonna need it.
  • Prudy Pingleton: [tying Penny to her bed with a jump rope, as Penny stoically says nothing]
  • Prudy Pingleton: Penny Lou Pingleton, you are absolutely, positively, permanently punished. You will live on a diet of saltines and Tang, and you will never leave this room again.
  • Prudy Pingleton: [tosses holy water on Penny] Devil child, devil child!
  • Penny Pingleton: [glowers at her mother]

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