My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)

Saeed Jaffrey: Nasser

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Quotes 

• Nasser : I thought you two were getting married.

  Omar : Yes, any day now.

  Tania : I'd rather drink my own urine.

  Omar : I hear it can be quite tasty with a slice of lemon.

• Nasser : Yes... But first we must marry Omar off.

  [Cut to Omar and Johnny making love in the back room] 

• Nasser : [to Omar]  In this damn country, which we hate and love, you can get anything you want. It's all spread out and available. That's why I believe in England. Only you need to know how to squeeze the tits of the system.

• Nasser : [to Johnny]  I'm a professional businessman not a professional Pakistani. And there is no question of race in the new enterprise culture.

• Nasser : [Nasser bursts into the room where Johnny and Omar made love just moments before]  What the hell are you doing? Sunbathing?

  Omar : Asleep, Uncle. We were shagged out.

• Nasser : Where are those two buggers?

• Nasser : [to Omar]  Bring Tania over here. Marry her. Well, what's wrong with her? When I say marry her, you damn well do it. Be nice to her, pressure off my fucking head. Your penis works doesn't it? Get going!

• Papa : This damn country has done us in. That's why I'm like this. We should be there. Home.

  Nasser : But that country's been sodomised by religion. It's beginning to interfere with the making of money. Compared with everywhere... it's a little heaven, here.

• Nasser : [whilst having sex with his lover]  Christ, you move like a liner.

• Nasser : [to Omar]  Nothing but a toilet and a youth club. A constant boil on my bum.

• Nasser : [to Omar]  Okay, I charge you basic rent. The key you keep.

• Nasser : What are you doing, boy?

  Omar : It will be going into profit any day now. Partly because I hired a bloke of astounding competence and strength of body and mind.

• Omar : What are you going to do with me?

  Nasser : What am I going to do with you? Turn you into something damn good.

• Nasser : [to Omar]  On the other hand a little water on the brain might clear your thoughts.

• Nasser : What bloke?

  Omar : He's called Johnny.

• Nasser : I can't go back. Religion is sodomizing the country. It's getting in the way of making money.