My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)

Derrick Branche: Salim

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Quotes 

• Salim : I want to talk to Omar about business.

  Johnny : I dunno where he is.

  Salim : Is it worth waiting?

  Johnny : In my experience, it's always worth waiting for Omo.

• Salim : [to Omar]  You're one of us now Omar.

• Omar : It took you a while to get onto us.

  Salim : Wanted to see what you'd do. How's your Papa? So many books written and read. Politicians sought him out. Bhutto was his close friend. But we're nothing in England without money.

• Salim : There's some things between them I'm looking into.

• Salim : Hey! Is that your car? Why are you feeling it up, then?

• Salim : It's easy to wash a car. You just wet a rag and rub. You know how to rub, don't you?

• Salim : Have you washed a car before? Your uncle can't pay you very much but at least you'll be able to afford a decent shirt and you'll be with your own people, not in the dole queue. And Mrs. Thatcher will be happy with me.

• Nasser : My blue brother was also a famous journalist in Bombay. And a great drinker. He was to the bottle what Louis Armstrong is to the trumpet.

  Salim : But you are to the bookies what Mother Teresa is to the children.

• Nasser : He's hired someone else to do the work.

  Salim : Typically English, if I can say that.

• Salim : You've done nothing with the laundrette and now you're trying to screw me up. Become like those white assholes that call us "wog"?

• Salim : Don't, in future, bite the family hand when you can eat out of it.

• Salim : What this scum needs is a taste of their own piss.