My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)

Gordon Warnecke: Omar

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• 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.

• Johnny : We'll just have to do a job to get the money.

  Omar : I don't want you going back to all that!

  Johnny : Just to get us through, Omo. We're going to go on. You want that, don't you?

  Omar : Yeah. I want you.

• Omar : 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.

• Johnny : [driving Cherry and Salim home, Omar stops by a bunch of street kids, one of whom is Johnny. Omar gets out of the car to talk to Johnny] 

  [indicating his friends] 

  Johnny : Like me friends?

  Omar : Ring us then.

  Johnny : I will.

  [indicates the car where Cherry is getting very angry] 

  Johnny : Leave 'em there. We can do something. Now. Just us.

• Omar : I'm being promoted. To Uncle's laundrette.

  Papa : [throwing a pair of socks to Omar]  Illustrate your washing methods!

• Omar : Where did you go? You just disappeared.

  Johnny : Drinking, I went. With my old mates. It ain't illegal.

  Omar : Of course it is, laundrettes are a big commitment. Why aren't you at work?

  Johnny : It'll be closing time soon. You'll be locking the place up, and coming to bed.

  Omar : No, it never closes. One of us has got to be there. That way, we begin to make money.

  Johnny : You're getting greedy.

  Omar : I want big money. I'm not going to be beat down by this country.

• 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.

• Omar : You know who I saw today? Johnny. Johnny!

  Papa : The boy who came here dressed as a fascist with a quarter-inch of hair?

  Omar : He was a friend once, for years.

  Papa : There were times when he didn't deserve your admiration so much.

  Omar : Christ, I've known him since I was five!

  Papa : He went too far.

• Papa : You must be getting married. Why else would you be dressed like an undertaker on holiday?

  Omar : Going to Uncle's house, Papa. He's given me a car.

  Papa : What? The brakes must be faulty. Tell me one thing because there's something I don't understand, though it must be my fault. How is it that scrubbing cars can make a son of mine look so ecstatic?

  Omar : It gets me out of the house.

  Papa : Don't get too involved with that crook. You've got to study. We are under siege by the white man. For us education is power.

  [Omar shakes his head at his father] 

  Papa : Don't let me down.

• Johnny : [Omar is showing Johnny round the laundrette]  I'm dead impressed by all this.

  Omar : You were the one at school. The one I liked.

  Johnny : [sarcastically]  All the Pakis liked me.

• 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 : What bloke?

  Omar : He's called Johnny.

• Johnny : Today has been the best day.

  Omar : Yeah, almost the best day.

• Omar : It took you a while to get onto us.

  Salim : 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.