Motormouth Maybelle: If we get any more white people in here, this is gonna be a suburb.

Wilbur to a sobbing Edna: Honey, it took me five years to realize you were flirting!

Motormouth Maybelle: Well, looks like y'all took a step outta bounds. Who've we got here?
Seaweed: Mom, I want you to meet my new friends. This here is Link, Tracy Turnblad...
Tracy: 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.

Link: I was just at home, practicing my new twist on The Twist, when I overheard it on the news. I can't believe Tracy savagely bludgeoned an Eagle Scout. That's just not like her.
Edna: But it's not true! I was there! He didn't even bleed.
Link: I shoulda been there, beside her. I can't sleep. I can't eat...
Edna: You can't eat? Well, come on in and worry with us. I'll make you some pork.

Amber: *on the phone* My name is Mike.
Edna: Mike?
Amber: Yes, Mike.
Edna: Mike who?
Amber: It's MIKE! Anyway... I'm calling because I have some information about your daughter's whereabouts.
Edna: What?
Amber: Right now, as we speak, your daughter has entered a hotbed of moral... turpentine.

Tracy: Negro Day's the best! I wish every day were Negro Day! Seaweed: At our house... it is.
Wilbur: This is America, babe, you gotta think big to be big.
Edna: Big ain't the problem in this family, Wilbur.

Motormouth Maybelle: Oh, so this is love? 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: So, you've met my mom?

Velma: 'Detroit sound?' What's that? The cries of people being mugged?

Penny: Seaweed? Shhh, don't let her hear you!
Seaweed: What happened to you?
Penny: She's punishing me for harboring a fugitive without her permission. What are you doing?
Seaweed: I'm here to rescue the fair maiden, baby.
Penny: Oh, Seaweed, you do care! I was afraid the colors of our skin would keep us apart.
Seaweed: No... but these knots might.

Corny Collins: Roll Call!
Council Members: I'm Amber! Brad! Tammy! Fender! Brenda! Sketch! Shelley! IQ! Lou Ann! Joey! Mikey! Vicki! Becky! Bix! Jesse! Darla! Paulie! Noreen! Doreen! And I'm... Link!

Corny Collins: And now it's time to say goodbye to our very own fun-lovin', free-wheelin' little Brenda. [looks to Brenda] Corny Collins: Come on up here, Brenda. Brenda will be taking a leave of absence from the show. How long are you gonna be gone, Brenda?
Brenda: [smiling nervously] Just nine months.

Corny Collins: That is the newest dance this week. Now, let's meet our brand new Council member, Miss Tracy Turnblad! Tracy, why don't you cozy up to old Corny and tell us about yourself.
Tracy: Well, I watch "The Corny Collins Show" and I do absolutely nothing else.
Corny Collins: Ohhh!
Edna: And to think I almost thumped Tracy from reaching for the stars.

Edna: No one is auditioning for anything in this house!
Tracy: But why not? Why not?
Edna: Dancing is not your future. One day, you're going to own Edna's Occidental Laundry.
Tracy: I don't want to be a laundress. I want to be famous.
Edna: If you want to be famous, learn how to take blood out of car upholstery. That's a move you can take right to the bank.