Azeem Quotes in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)

Azeem: Salaam, little one.

Small Girl: Did God paint you?

Azeem: Did God paint me?

[laughs]

Azeem: For certain.

Small Girl: Why?

Azeem: Because Allah loves wondrous varieties.

Azeem: A wise man once said: "There are no perfect men in the world; only perfect intentions."

Azeem: English! English! Behold, Azeem Edin Bashir Al Bakir. I am not one of you, but I fight! I fight with Robin Hood. I fight against a tyrant who holds you under his boot! If you would be free men, then you must fight! Join us now, join Robin Hood!

Azeem: Was she worth it?

Robin Hood: Worth dying for.

[Azeem shows Guy's approaching men with a telescope. Robin peers at it, bewildered]

Azeem: How did your uneducated kind ever take Jerusalem?

Azeem: Where I come from, we talk to our women. We do not drug them with plants.

[after escaping from the Turks' dungeon]

Azeem: Why did you cut me free, Christian?

Robin Hood: Whatever blood is in your veins, no man deserves to die in there.

Robin Hood: What do you know of women?

Azeem: Where I come from, Christian, there are women of such beauty, that they can possess a man's mind so that he would be willing to die for them.

Robin Hood: Wait a minute. Is that why you were to be executed? Because of a woman?

[laughs]

Robin Hood: That's it, isn't it? That's it!

Azeem: It is close to sunset.

Robin Hood: You painted old hound, who was she? The mullah's daughter? Another man's wife? What's her name?

Azeem: Is there no sun in this cursed country? Which way is East?

Robin Hood: Her name.

Azeem: East!

Robin Hood: Her name.

Azeem: Jasmina.

Robin Hood: [points] That way.

Azeem: The hospitality in this country is as warm as the weather.

[talking about how many men that are about to be ambushed]

Robin Hood: How many?

Azeem: 20.

Robin Hood: 20?

Bull: [further away] How many?

Robin Hood: 5.

Robin Hood: [to Azeem] He can't count anyway.

Azeem: No man controls my destiny... especially not one who attacks downwind and stinks of garlic.

Robin Hood: I had to try.

Azeem: *I* would have succeeded.

[coming to a wide river]

Azeem: In my dreams alone have I imagined such a place.

Robin Hood: Then imagine a way to cross it.

Robin Hood: And you. You travel ten thousand miles to save my life and leave me to be butchered.

Azeem: I fulfill my vows when I choose to.

Robin Hood: Which does not include prayer time, meal time, or any time I'm outnumbered six to one.

Azeem: You whine like a mule. You are still alive.

Duncan: Curse those Moors and Saracens. If it wasn't for their ungodly ways, master Robin would never have left. What manner of name is Azeem? Irish, Cornish?

Azeem: Moorish.

Friar Tuck: Let us open a bottle and do our best to save each other's souls.

Azeem: Alas, I am not permitted.

Friar Tuck: Fine then, you talk, I'll drink.

[Robin has been knocked down once by John Little]

Robin Hood: Any suggestions?

Azeem: Get up. Move faster.

Robin Hood: Move faster. Great idea.

Azeem: [holding Robin Hood back] Come my friend! Make his sacrifice an act of honor! Come now.

[Azeem is preparing to help Fanny deliver a breech baby]

Robin Hood: What are you going to do?

Azeem: I have seen it many times... with horses.

Robin Hood: With *horses*?

[the outlaws are passing a jug of mead around a circle; one of them finishes, then starts to pass the bottle past Azeem]

Robin Hood: Has English hospitality changed so much that a friend of mine's not welcome?

Hal: But he's a savage, sire.

Robin Hood: That he is... but no more than you or I. And don't call me sire.

[the woodsman offers the jug to Azeem]

Azeem: Regretfully, I must decline. Allah forbids it.

Little John: Your bloody loss, mate.

Guy of Gisborne: C'mon, damn you! There're only three of them!

Soldier: It's not the men we fear, sir. It's the evil spirits.

Guy of Gisborne: Robin of the Hood! Son of a devil worshipper! Your father died a coward, cursing your name and squealling like a stuck pig!

Azeem: You will bring no justice to your father by dying today.

Azeem: [walking through Habib's Lucky Ganesh wearing an explosive belt] Goodbye Heaven Tarts, Sugar Logs, Powdered Flakes, Sugar Sweetie O's...

Azeem: [standing next to the exit] Farewell slimline caramel ice cream.

Azeem: [heading towards Candidate Wells] Allah!

[Azeem hugs Candidate Wells and his belt explodes]