My Beautiful Laundrette Quotes

My Beautiful Laundrette is a TV show that was first aired in 1970 . My Beautiful Laundrette ended in 1970.

It features Sarah Radclyffe as producer, Stanley Myers in charge of musical score, and Oliver Stapleton as head of cinematography.

My Beautiful Laundrette is recorded in English, and Urdu and originally aired in United Kingdom. Each episode of My Beautiful Laundrette is 97 minutes long. My Beautiful Laundrette is distributed by Orion Pictures.

The cast includes: Derrick Branche as Salim, Daniel Day-Lewis as Johnny, Gordon Warnecke as Omar, Saeed Jaffrey as Nasser, Rita Wolf as Tania, and Roshan Seth as Papa.

My Beautiful Laundrette Quotes

Derrick Branche as Salim

• (Derrick Branche) "You're one of us now Omar."

• (Derrick Branche) "I want to talk to Omar about business."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "I dunno where he is."
• (Derrick Branche) "Is it worth waiting?"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "In my experience, it's always worth waiting for Omo."

• (Derrick Branche) "There's some things between them I'm looking into."

Saeed Jaffrey as Nasser

• (Saeed Jaffrey) "Okay, I charge you basic rent. The key you keep."

• (Saeed Jaffrey) "What bloke?"
• (Gordon Warnecke) "He's called Johnny."

• (Saeed Jaffrey) "I'm a professional businessman not a professional Pakistani. And there is no question of race in the new enterprise culture."

• (Saeed Jaffrey) "What the hell are you doing? Sunbathing?"
• (Gordon Warnecke) "Asleep, Uncle. We were shagged out."

• (Saeed Jaffrey) "On the other hand a little water on the brain might clear your thoughts."

• (Saeed Jaffrey) "I can't go back. Religion is sodomizing the country. It's getting in the way of making money."

• (Saeed Jaffrey) "What are you doing, boy?"
• (Gordon Warnecke) "It will be going into profit any day now. Partly because I hired a bloke of astounding competence and strength of body and mind."

• (Saeed Jaffrey) "Nothing but a toilet and a youth club. A constant boil on my bum."

• (Saeed Jaffrey) "Christ, you move like a liner."

• (Saeed Jaffrey) "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 f***ing head. Your penis works doesn't it? Get going."

• (Saeed Jaffrey) "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."

Roshan Seth as Papa

• (Roshan Seth) "Work now till you go back to college. And I'm fixing you up with a job with your uncle."

• (Roshan Seth) "I don't want my son in this underpants cleaning condition."

• (Roshan Seth) "This damn country has done us in. That's why I'm like this. We should be there. Home."
• (Saeed Jaffrey) "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."

• (Roshan Seth) "Oh, one thing more, try to fix him up with a nice girl. I'm not sure his penis is in full working order."

Gordon Warnecke as Omar

• (Gordon Warnecke) "What are you going to do with me?"
• (Saeed Jaffrey) "What am I going to do with you? Turn you into something damn good."

• (Gordon Warnecke) "I'm being promoted. To Uncle's laundrette."
• (Roshan Seth) "Illustrate your washing methods."

• (Gordon Warnecke) "Where did you go? You just disappeared."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Drinking, I went. With my old mates. It ain't illegal."
• (Gordon Warnecke) "Of course it is, laundrettes are a big commitment. Why aren't you at work?"
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "It'll be closing time soon. You'll be locking the place up, and coming to bed."
• (Gordon Warnecke) "No, it never closes. One of us has got to be there. That way, we begin to make money."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "You're getting greedy."
• (Gordon Warnecke) "I want big money. I'm not going to be beat down by this country."

• (Gordon Warnecke) "It took you a while to get onto us."
• (Derrick Branche) "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."

• (Gordon Warnecke) "When we were in school, you and your friends were kicking me around the place. And what are you doing now? Washing my floor and that's how I like it."

Daniel Day-Lewis as Johnny

• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "We're moving house."

• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "We'll just have to do a job to get the money."
• (Gordon Warnecke) "I don't want you going back to all that."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Just to get us through, Omo. We're going to go on. You want that, don't you?"
• (Gordon Warnecke) "Yeah. I want you."

• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Today has been the best day."
• (Gordon Warnecke) "Yeah, almost the best day."

• (Unnamed) "Why are you working for these people? Pakis."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "It's work, that's why."

• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Like me friends?"
• (Gordon Warnecke) "Ring us then."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "I will."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Leave 'em there. We can do something. Now. Just us."

• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Don't you be touching me."

• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "A laundrette as big as the Ritz. Oh yes."

• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "Ain't nothing I can say to make it up to you. There's only things I can do to show you -- That I am with you."

Rita Wolf as Tania

• (Rita Wolf) "I'm going. You can come."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "No good jobs like this around."
• (Rita Wolf) "Omar just runs you around everywhere, like a servant."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "I'll stay here with my friend and fight it out."
• (Rita Wolf) "My family, Salim and all -- will swallow you up like a little kebab."
• (Daniel Day-Lewis) "I couldn't leave him. Not now. Don't ask me to. You ever touched him?"

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