Edna
Will you turn that racket down? I'm trying to iron here.
Tracy
Ma, its not racket, its the Corny Collins Show!
Edna
Well, it's turning your brains into mud!
Played by John Travolta 
Hairspray (2007) · 43 quotes
Hairspray (2007) · 43 quotes
Scenes with Edna
7 scenes Edna
Tracy
Edna
Edna
No one is auditioning for anything in this household!
Tracy
But why not? Why not?
Edna
Because 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 skill you can take right to the bank!
Wilbur
[to Tracy]
This is America, babe, you gotta think big to be big.
Edna
Big ain’t the problem in this family, Wilbur...
Amber
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... !urpentine.
Maybelle
Miz Edna, is it? Hi, I mean, you don’t have to rush off, you know.
Edna
Well, I do. I left my iron on.
Maybelle
Oh, your iron? Well, before you go, are you sure you wouldn't like to have a little something to eat? [shows Edna the soul food spread on the table]
Edna
[after a long moment]
Is that braised?
Link
I was just at home, practising 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!
Amber
I lost, Mom, Let’s just deal with it!
Velma
No, you did not lose! [as she pulls the tallies out of her brassiere] You cannot have lost because I switched the damn tallies!
Edna
Smile, Ms. Crab Meat! [camera pans to reveal her and Wilbur standing behind a live television camera] You’re on Candid Camera!
Wilbur
That was a good shot, don’t you think?
Cameraman
Not bad!
