Hairspray (2007)

Queen Latifah: Motormouth Maybelle

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Quotes 

• 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!

• [from trailer] 

  Motormouth Maybelle : [after demonstrating a dance]  That's the way you do it!

• Motormouth Maybelle : Napaway. For stubborn hair. Every kink, will be gone in a blink.

• 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?