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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)

Brittany Snow: Amber Von Tussle

Hairspray

Brittany Snow credited as playing...

Amber Von Tussle

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  • Amber Von Tussle: [on the phone with Edna, disguising her voice] My name is Mike.
  • Edna Turnblad: [off-camera] Mike?
  • Amber Von Tussle: Yes, Mike.
  • Edna Turnblad: Mike who?
  • Amber Von Tussle: [slips back into her normal voice] It's MIKE!
  • [catches herself, coughs]
  • Amber Von Tussle: Anyway... I'm calling because I have some information about your daughter's whereabouts.
  • Edna Turnblad: What?
  • Amber Von Tussle: Right now, as we speak, your daughter has entered a hotbed of moral... turpentine.
  • Link Larkin: [presents Amber with a ring] It's time.
  • Amber Von Tussle: Oh!
  • [Amber and Link kiss]
  • Velma Von Tussle: Amber! Save your personal life for the camera, sweetie! Oop, shiny!
  • [sends Amber off to makeup for more powder]
  • 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?
  • [singing]
  • Tammy: Are you scared we're on live?
  • Tracy Turnblad: No, I'm sure I can cope.
  • Amber Von Tussle: Well, this show isn't broadcast in...
  • Tammy, Amber Von Tussle, Shelley, Noreen, Doreen, Vicki, Darla, Becky: [with the other council girls] Cinemascope!
  • Velma Von Tussle: I never drank one chocolate malt. No desserts for Miss Baltimore Crabs.
  • Amber Von Tussle: [to her classmates] Oh, and it's totally not true about her and the entire football team. I mean, please: anybody can get grass stains all over their back.
  • Link Larkin: Amber, stop it. I'm sick of you doing that! Just because she's a good dancer...
  • Amber Von Tussle: [scoffs] Uh, I'm sorry... you think that she can dance? Well, maybe you'd rather have her as your partner. You could get sponsored by Goodyear!
  • Link Larkin: Uh... we're on live.
  • Amber Von Tussle: You have to vote for a person! Not one of the Himalayas.
  • [from trailer]
  • Velma Von Tussle: [to Edna, about Tracy] Tracy certainly has redefined our standards
  • [chuckles]
  • Amber Von Tussle: That's for sure.
  • Amber Von Tussle: [to Shelley] Do that again, and there'll be stumps where your feet are, you got that? You little who...
  • Link Larkin: [interrupting] Hey, Amber
  • Amber Von Tussle: [to Link] - Oley moley!
  • [Amber is crying after Link has gone with Tracy and the Detention Kids]
  • Amber Von Tussle: He just danced on that bus with that Great White Whale and those Negroes!
  • [singing]
  • Shelley: She's hip!
  • Tammy: So cool!
  • Amber Von Tussle: I'm gonna get her after school.
  • Amber Von Tussle, Tammy, Shelley: [singing] Hey, look out for that movin' van, drivin' down our streets!

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