Nasser Quotes in My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)

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

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

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

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.

Nasser: Where are those two buggers?

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