Balukjiaan Quotes in Sirocco (1951)

Nasir Aboud: Hey, what's the matter with you?

Balukjiaan: Nothing is the matter. Why?

Nasir Aboud: You look sick.

[to his assistant]

Nasir Aboud: Doesn't he look sick?

Nasir's assistant: Yeah!

Balukjiaan: I'm never sick!

Nasir Aboud: That's what my poor father said just before he died.

Balukjiaan: [entering the warehouse] Nasir, my little lamb, my sweet friend!

Nasir Aboud: [with sarcasm] We smelled you coming.

Balukjiaan: Uh?

Nasir's assistant: He said you smell like a goat!

The barber: Get your big stomach out of my way!

Balukjiaan: My poor stomach! Every little thing upsets it. Do you have any soda?

Harry Smith: What's the matter with your stomach?

Balukjiaan: It talks to me like my conscience.

Harry Smith: What does it say?

Balukjiaan: It says,"Levon, my lamb, why do you stay in this terrible town? Why don't you go away - far away?"

Balukjiaan: Look how everybody's worried. Why worry? He asked us to come, we came. If he wants to do business, we do business. If he doesn't want to do business, we don't do business. Right?

Merchant businessman: Not right. Wrong. Wrong. What do we have to sell? Food. Since when does the Chief of Intelligence buy food for the Army?

Balukjiaan: Don't make me nervous.