The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Movie Quotes
Sonny
Everything will be all right in the end... if it's not all right then it's not yet the end.
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Evelyn
The only real failure is the failure to try. And the measure of success is how we cope with disappointment. As we always must. We came here, and we tried. All of us, in our different ways. Can we be blamed for feeling we're too old to change? Too scared of disappointment to start it all again? We get up every morning, we do our best. Nothing else matters.But it's also true that the person who risks nothing, does nothing; has nothing. All we know about the future is that it will be different. But, perhaps what we fear is that it will be the same. So, we must celebrate the changes. Because, as someone once said "Everything will be all right in the end. And if it's not all right, then trust me, it's not yet the end.
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Evelyn
Nothing here has worked out quite as I expected.
Muriel
Most things don't. But sometimes what happens instead is the good stuff.
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Evelyn
There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it. Only a present that builds and creates itself as the past withdraws.
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Carol
You haven't met anyone?
Madge Hardcastle
Single by choice. Just not my choice.
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Muriel
And you know who'll be there, don't you? Indians! Loads of them, with brown faces and black hearts, reeking of curry! I mean you never see just one, do you? They travel in packs, makes it easier to rob you blind!
[the orderly stops pushing her]
Muriel
What are you doing?
Orderly
[stops pushing her wheelchair] I think you can make it from here.
Muriel
But you're supposed to take me home!
Orderly
[walking off] My wife is from Mumbai.
Muriel
Well don't blame me, mate, you married her!
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Mrs. Kapoor
Do I need a reason to visit my favorite son?
Sonny
No - he's at his mansion in Dehli.
Mrs. Kapoor
Alright, my second favorite!
Sonny
He went to Canada to make his fortune.
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Evelyn
Yes
[It is builder's tea]
Evelyn
, we dunk biscuits into it.
Sunaina's Brother
Dunk?
Evelyn
Means lowering the biscuit into the tea and letting it soak in there and trying to calculate the exact moment before the biscuit dissolves, when you whip it up into your mouth and enjoy the blissful union of biscuits and tea combined. It's more relaxing than it sounds.
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Norman Cousins
This is it.
Madge Hardcastle
You're not worried about the danger of having sex at your age?
Norman Cousins
If she dies, she dies.
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Madge's Son-in-Law
How many husbands have you had?
Madge Hardcastle
Including my own?
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Evelyn
[about their new environment]
Initially you're overwhelmed. But gradually you realize it's like a wave. Resist, and you'll be knocked over. Dive into it, and you'll swim out the other side.
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Jean
Are you insane? Avoid all food not from a reputable vendor. It'll be washed in impure water.
Douglas Ainslie
It's just a sandwich.
Jean
Oh, marvelous. Then I'll have ham, cheese, and streptococcus. Or perhaps bacteria, lettuce, and tomato.
Douglas Ainslie
Would you like some of this? I believe it's called aloo ka paratha.
Muriel
No, if I can't pronounce it, I don't want to eat it.
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Madge Hardcastle
One was rather hoping to fly under the radar, but one is a member of the royal family.
Viceroy Club Secretary
Which member, madam?
Madge Hardcastle
I'm Princess Margaret.
Viceroy Club Secretary
It is most certainly an honor to meet you, madam. And may I say how well you look, especially taking into account that you died nine years ago.
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Sonny
I have a dream, MummyJi, a most brilliant one. To outsource old age! And it is not just for the British, there are many other countries where they don't like old people too!
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[downs the contents of Madge's glass]
Madge Hardcastle
That was a gin and tonic!
Evelyn
I know that now.
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Sunaina
Do you love me, Sonny?
Sonny
My feelings cannot be reduced to a single word.
Sunaina
It is a nice word. People like hearing it.
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Douglas Ainslie
I invested our, well, my retirement money in our daughter's Internet company. She assured me that as soon as the startup actually, um, started up and the conversion from virtual to actual became sufficiently viable, then she'd be able to pay it all back.
Evelyn
I'm not sure I understand what most of those words mean.
Douglas Ainslie
Well, it turns out neither did she.
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Muriel's Physiotherapist
How is the hip feeling?
Muriel
They must have got lucky.
Muriel's Physiotherapist
It's strange. The more operations they perform, the luckier they get.
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Jean
The whole thing is actually tremendously exciting. Not just getting on the plane, but getting on the plane and turning left.
Norman Cousins
Turning left?
Jean
First class. And home in time for our fortieth wedding anniversary. We haven't quite decided how to mark the occasion.
Madge Hardcastle
Perhaps a minute's silence.
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Evelyn
Is it our friend we are grieving for, whose life we knew so little? Or is it our own loss that we are mourning? Have we traveled far enough that we can allow our tears to fall?
Madge Hardcastle
When someone dies, you think about your own life. And I don't want to grow older. I don't want to be condescended to. To become marginalized and ignored by society. I don't want to be the first person they let off the plane in a hostage crisis.
[chuckles]
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Douglas Ainslie
She was upset.
Jean
Oh, spare me your explanation. Do you think I'm jealous?
Douglas Ainslie
I don't see why else you would have embarrassed me... and Evelyn.
Jean
You seem to be doing a perfectly good job of embarrassing yourself. Can you imagine how ghastly it is for everyone to see you mooning around after that simpering, doe-eyed ex-housewife, taking advantage of her loneliness...
Douglas Ainslie
Look. Can you hear yourself? Can you? Do you have any idea what a terrible person you have become? All you give out is this endless negativity, a refusal to see any kind of light and joy, even when it's staring you in the face, and a desperate need to squash any sign of happiness in me or... or... or... anyone else. It's a wonder that I don't fling myself at the first kind word or gesture that comes my way, but I don't, ou... ou... ou... out of some sense of dried-up loyalty and respect, neither of which I ever bloody get in return.
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Graham Dashwood
I'm gay - although nowadays more in theory than in practice.
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Graham Dashwood
First rule of India: there's always room.
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Jean
In fact, I think I've been looking for you for a very long time.
Graham Dashwood
Mrs. Ainslie.
Jean
"Jean"
Graham Dashwood
I'm gay.
Jean
...As in... happy?
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Evelyn
What's the use of a marriage when nothing is shared?
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Norman Cousins
My name's Norman and I'm lonely.
Carol
My name's Carol. So am I.
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Evelyn
Can there be anywhere else in the world that is such an assault on the senses? Those who know the country of old just go about their business. But nothing can prepare the uninitiated for this riot of noise and color. For the heat, the motion; the perpetual teeming crowds.
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Evelyn
You're still here.
Douglas Ainslie
I... I missed the plane.
Evelyn
What about Jean?
Douglas Ainslie
She didn't. I had... I had quite an interesting night actually. I... I met the same... um... taxi driver, but this time I let him take me to his brother's hotel, which turned out to be less of a hotel and more of a... more of a brothel really. And... and they gave... they gave me this pipe, said it was apple tobacco but that's not what they called it when I was a student, so... so I made my excuses and left. I needed time to think. This city at night is extraordinary. I think the apple tobacco helped... probably.
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Evelyn
Didn't you have a girlfriend?
Sonny
She is my girlfriend no longer.
Evelyn
This is a disaster.
Sonny
No, no. Then we must treat it just the same as we would treat a triumph, madam. Is that not what your Mr. Kipling tells us? Although, of course, here we have a problem, because I, Sunil Indrajit Kapoor, have never had a triumph. So, of course, I do not know how to treat one. No, all I've had is a constant series of disasters interspersed with occasional catastrophe, an unending stream of total...
Evelyn
Sonny, Sonny, do you love her?
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Sonny
Let's meet somewhere else. I will rent a hotel room!
Sunaina
Sonny, you own a hotel - it has many rooms.
Sonny
Some of which are now occupied with actual real guests!
Sunaina
Paying guests?
Sonny
Why must you nit-pick? It is not an attractive quality.
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Jay
Hey, what's going on?
[Bent over panting and out of breath from running up the stairs. Sonny holds up one finger to motion to please wait]
Jay
Sonny?
Jay
Her shift's not over. And when it is, she doesn't want to see you.
Sonny
Jay. You - You are the son my mother wished I was. An intelligent man with a strong head for business. You see things as they are and not as you wish them to be. So, fuck off out of my way!
[Jay crosses his arms]
Sonny
Or, you can give her a message. Tell her from me what I should have told her the day we met. What I will announce to anyone who asks and many who do not.
Sunaina
[Interjects from around the corner]
Including your mother?
Jay
[Asks Sonny incorrectly]
Including my mother?
Sunaina
[Correcting Jay]
His mother.
Jay
Your mother.
Sonny
I will tell every mother in the land.
Sunaina
[Asking Sonny]
What will you tell them?
Jay
[Also asking Sonny]
What will you tell them?
Sonny
The only thing that matters in this world. That I love you and always will. And by "you" I mean Sunaina, Jay, not you. Although if you are to be my brother-in-law, I hope we can become better friends.
Sunaina
[Speaking to Jay]
Why is he only saying this now?
Jay
[Speaking to Sunaina]
You ask him.
Sunaina
[Comes to the stairs bannister and looks Sonny in the eye]
Why are you only saying this now?
Sonny
Because, Sunaina... love of my life, no more will I believe that I'm not worthy. For only by loving you as you deserve will I become so.
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Norman Cousins
[eulogizing]
His relationship with all his pupils was founded on respect. We respected him, and he respected that.
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Jean
As long as such a fall happens to occur right next to the panic button.
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Graham Dashwood
Good evening, Mrs. Ainslie. You have a good day? What did you get up to?
Jean
Well, I started in my bedroom where I spent a happy couple of hours giving all the cockroaches names. And then after lunch, that will long have a place in my heartburn, I came out here and stared blindly at a book waiting for someone - anyone - to rescue me. And how glad I am it was you.
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Sonny
[showing around a potential investor]
Please can you describe to us in as much detail as you desire your experience of the ambiance and atmosphere of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.
Muriel
Words fail me.
Sonny
Ah, the English wit we love so greatly.
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Sonny
You see? Profound satisfaction. Such is the inevitable result of a prolonged stay at the Marigold Hotel. To create a home for the elderly so wonderful that they will simply refuse to die. Stare death in the face and say... What are those men doing?
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Sonny
Your bedroom.
Madge Hardcastle
Where?
Sonny
Here. In here.
Madge Hardcastle
My dear man, rooms have doors. What you're showing me here is an alcove.
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Graham Dashwood
Why would you not go out? There's so much to see. All life is here, Mrs. Ainslie. I tell you.
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Sunaina
Is your husband watching with you, Evelyn?
Evelyn
No. No, he died.
Sunaina
Um, perhaps you...
Evelyn
You know, I've actually had a version of this call. A little while ago, I talked to someone who was so constricted by the scripts, well, sales agenda, that she spoke without a trace of humanity. As if she hadn't realized that... I was going completely to pieces at the end of the phone.
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