Sirocco (1951)

Nick Dennis: Nasir Aboud

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Quotes 

• Nasir Aboud : [hearing gunfire]  It's a French gun.

  Harry Smith : What do you care whose gun it is as long as it isn't aimed at you?

• Feisal : [skulking into the barber shop]  You wish to buy some jewels?

  Harry Smith : You got some good ones?

  Feisal : Beautiful jewels fit for a dream of a girl, one who is different!

  Nasir Aboud : Ah, they're all the same!

  Feisal : Oh, no, each new girl is different. With each new love a mist comes before the eyes, the pleasure you will have before the mist rises and you find out that she's like all the others!

• Nasir Aboud : Hey, what's the matter with you?

  Balukjiaan : Nothing is the matter. Why?

  Nasir Aboud : You look sick.

  [to his assistant] 

  Nasir Aboud : Doesn't he look sick?

  Nasir's assistant : Yeah!

  Balukjiaan : I'm never sick!

  Nasir Aboud : That's what my poor father said just before he died.

• Balukjiaan : [entering the warehouse]  Nasir, my little lamb, my sweet friend!

  Nasir Aboud : [with sarcasm]  We smelled you coming.

  Balukjiaan : Uh?

  Nasir's assistant : He said you smell like a goat!

• Harry Smith : [after the restaurant bombing]  You and your cruddy Syrian patriots.

  Nasir Aboud : They were after Colonel Feroud.

  Harry Smith : They almost got *me*.

  Nasir Aboud : You eat with the French, you get what the French get.