The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Quotes

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is a TV show that debuted in 1970 . The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel completed its run in 1970.

It features Graham Broadbent as producer, Thomas Newman in charge of musical score, and Ben Davis (cinematographer) as head of cinematography.

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is recorded in English and originally aired in United Kingdom. Each episode of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is 124 minutes long. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures.

The cast includes: Dev Patel as Sonny, Judi Dench as Evelyn, Maggie Smith as Muriel, Diana Hardcastle as Carol, Celia Imrie as Madge Hardcastle, Maggie Smith as Orderly, Lillete Dubey as Mrs. Kapoor, Ronald Pickup as Norman Cousins, Penelope Wilton as Jean, Bill Nighy as Douglas Ainslie, Tina Desai as Sunaina, and Tom Wilkinson as Graham Dashwood.

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Quotes

Dev Patel as Sonny

• (Dev Patel) "Let's meet somewhere else. I will rent a hotel room."
• (Tina Desai) "Sonny, you own a hotel; it has many rooms."
• (Dev Patel) "Some of which are now occupied with actual real guests."
• (Tina Desai) "Paying guests?"
• (Dev Patel) "Why must you nit-pick? It is not an attractive quality."

• (Dev Patel) "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."

• (Dev Patel) "Let me through, my brother is a doctor."

• (Dev Patel) "Sunaina. Sunaina. Sunaina. Sunaina."
• (Unnamed) "Hey, what's going on?"
• (Unnamed) "Sonny?"
• (Dev Patel) "I need to see Sunaina."
• (Unnamed) "Her shift's not over. And when it is, she doesn't want to see you."
• (Dev Patel) "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, f*** off out of my way."
• (Dev Patel) "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."
• (Tina Desai) "Including your mother?"
• (Unnamed) "Including my mother?"
• (Tina Desai) "His mother."
• (Unnamed) "Your mother."
• (Dev Patel) "I will tell every mother in the land."
• (Tina Desai) "What will you tell them?"
• (Unnamed) "What will you tell them?"
• (Dev Patel) "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."
• (Tina Desai) "Why is he only saying this now?"
• (Unnamed) "You ask him."
• (Tina Desai) "Why are you only saying this now?"
• (Dev Patel) "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."

• (Dev Patel) "Everything will be all right in the end -- if it's not all right then it's not yet the end."

• (Dev Patel) "Your bedroom."
• (Celia Imrie) "Where?"
• (Dev Patel) "Here. In here."
• (Celia Imrie) "My dear man, rooms have doors. What you're showing me here is an alcove."

• (Dev Patel) "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?"

Ronald Pickup as Norman Cousins

• (Ronald Pickup) "His relationship with all his pupils was founded on respect. We respected him, and he respected that."

• (Ronald Pickup) "This is it."
• (Celia Imrie) "You're not worried about thre danger of having sex at your age?"
• (Ronald Pickup) "If she dies, she dies."

• (Ronald Pickup) "My name's Norman, and I'm lonely."
• (Diana Hardcastle) "My name's Carol. So am I."

Penelope Wilton as Jean

• (Penelope Wilton) "Are you insane? Avoid all food not from a reputable vendor. It'll be washed in impure water."
• (Bill Nighy) "It's just a sandwich."
• (Penelope Wilton) "Oh, marvelous. Then I'll have ham, cheese, and streptococcus. Or perhaps bacteria, lettuce, and tomato."
• (Bill Nighy) "Would you like some of this? I believe it's called aloo ka paratha."
• (Maggie Smith) "No, if I can't pronounce it, I don't want to eat it."

• (Penelope Wilton) "In fact, I think I've been looking for you for a very long time."
• (Tom Wilkinson) "Mrs. Ainslie."
• (Penelope Wilton) ""Jean""
• (Tom Wilkinson) "I'm gay."
• (Penelope Wilton) "-- As in -- happy?"

• (Penelope Wilton) "When I want your opinion I'll tell you what it is."

• (Penelope Wilton) "As long as such a fall happens to occur right next to the panic button."

Judi Dench as Evelyn

• (Judi Dench) "You're still here."
• (Bill Nighy) "I -- I missed the plane."
• (Judi Dench) "What about Jean?"
• (Bill Nighy) "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."

• (Judi Dench) "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."

• (Judi Dench) "Yes"
• (Judi Dench) ", we dunk biscuits into it."
• (Unnamed) "Dunk?"
• (Judi Dench) "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."

• (Judi Dench) "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."

• (Judi Dench) "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."
• (Judi Dench) "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.""

• (Judi Dench) "I just need some water --"
• (Celia Imrie) "That was a gin and tonic."
• (Judi Dench) "I know that now."

• (Judi Dench) "Didn't you have a girlfriend?"
• (Dev Patel) "She is my girlfriend no longer."
• (Judi Dench) "This is a disaster."
• (Dev Patel) "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 --"
• (Judi Dench) "Sonny, Sonny, do you love her?"

• (Judi Dench) "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?"
• (Celia Imrie) "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."

• (Judi Dench) "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."

• (Judi Dench) "Nothing here has worked out quite as I expected."
• (Maggie Smith) "Most things don't. But sometimes what happens instead is the good stuff."

Diana Hardcastle as Carol

• (Diana Hardcastle) "You haven't met anyone?"
• (Celia Imrie) "Single by choice. Just not my choice."

Celia Imrie as Madge Hardcastle

• (Celia Imrie) "One was rather hoping to fly under the radar, but one is a member of the royal family."
• (Mr. Maruthi) "Which member, madam?"
• (Celia Imrie) "I'm Princess Margaret."
• (Mr. Maruthi) "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."

• (Madge's Son-in-Law) "How many husbands have you had?"
• (Celia Imrie) "Including my own?"

Bill Nighy as Douglas Ainslie

• (Bill Nighy) "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."
• (Judi Dench) "I'm not sure I understand what most of those words mean."
• (Bill Nighy) "Well, it turns out neither did she."

• (Bill Nighy) "She was upset."
• (Penelope Wilton) "Oh spare me your explanation. Do you think I'm jealous?"
• (Bill Nighy) "I don't see why else you would have emabarrassed me -- and Evelyn."
• (Penelope Wilton) "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 --"
• (Bill Nighy) "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."
• (Penelope Wilton) "I checked my emails. There's one from Laura."

Tom Wilkinson as Graham Dashwood

• (Tom Wilkinson) "Good evening, Mrs. Ainslie. You have a good day? What did you get up to?"
• (Penelope Wilton) "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."

• (Tom Wilkinson) "I'm gay; although nowadays more in theory than in practice."

Lillete Dubey as Mrs. Kapoor

• (Lillete Dubey) "Do I need a reason to visit my favorite son?"
• (Dev Patel) "No; he's at his mansion in Dehli."
• (Lillete Dubey) "Alright, my second favorite."
• (Dev Patel) "He went to Canada to make his fortune."

Maggie Smith as Muriel

• (Muriel's Physiotherapist) "How is the hip feeling?"
• (Maggie Smith) "They must have got lucky."
• (Muriel's Physiotherapist) "It's strange. The more operations they perform, the luckier they get."

Tina Desai as Sunaina

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