Oliver T'sien It's about time somebody stood up to Auntie Eleanor. But you, not me, oh god. She can't ever know I was here.
Rachel Chu
Constance Wu · 12 quotes
Peik Lin Goh
Awkwafina · 7 quotes
Nick Young
Henry Golding · 6 quotes
Astrid Young Teo
Gemma Chan · 3 quotes
Eleanor Young
Michelle Yeoh · 2 quotes
Most scenes together: Rachel Chu & Nick Young (6)
Crazy Rich Asians quotes
Page 1 of 2 Oliver T'sien
Wye Mun Goh
Let me get this straight. You both went to the same school. Yet someone came back with a degree that's useful, and the other one came back as Asian Ellen.
Neenah Goh
[Showing off her luxurious home]
We were inspired by the Hall of Mirrors in Versaillles.
So, what about us taking an adventure east?
[thinking for a minute]
You wanna get pork buns in the East Village. That's what it is, isn't it?
I was actually thinking of further east.
Like Queens?
Like Singapore, for spring break? Colin's wedding. We've been dating for over a year now, and I think it's about time people met my beautiful girlfriend. Come on, I'm Colin's best man. Don't you wanna see where I grew up? Meet my family, my Ah Ma?
When we first met, you had no idea who I was, who my family were. You didn't care!
Yeah, I don't care about that stupid stuff.
Well, exactly. You are so different from all of the women that I grew up with.
[as they bury the gutted fish from her hotel room]
This weekend was supposed to be mani-pedis, cocktails served in pineapples. This definitely wasn't on the menu. Why would Araminta even have friends like them? They're so mean.
[as they fill in the hole]
Well, you grow up your whole lives together, you make excuses for people. Specially the morons.
I'm not an animal, Rachel.
I'm flying back to New York with you.
Don't make this harder than it already is.
I always imagined what me proposing to you would be like. You know what? I had it all planned out.
Passenger
Right behind you.
Don't mind me. I bring you to my favorite spot on the island. There's a hidden trail that I used to go to as a child. And there's a cove there that opens up to this beautiful lake.
Passenger
[bumps into Nick]
Sorry, dude.
Give me a second, coming through. When the sun hits the horizon, I get down on one knee. And the rest of the world would fall away. Because it would just be you and... Because it's just you... [to a passenger struggling with her bag] Sorry, I can help you with that. [to Rachel] Right, stay there. [to a passenger] Yeah. You too? Watch your fingers. Everybody okay? 'Cause I just need 30 seconds with this woman. Thank you. [climbs across seats] Coming through. Sorry. I know this is a far throw from a hidden paradise. But wherever you are in the world, that's where I belong. But I... [kneels] Rachel Chu... [holds out a ring] Will you marry me? And make me the happiest man in this world?
Kerry Chu
Yes! Yes! She will marry you!
Yes! I love you.
I love you, too.
This is gonna be some flight back to New York.
Well, I was actually thinking about staying one more night.
[they kiss]
I thought I was here to meet your family, go to your best friend's wedding, eat some good food. Instead, I feel like I'm a villain in a soap opera who's plotting to steal your family fortune.
What happened?
I mean, I met Amanda. She told me that everyone here thinks that I'm the evil person that prevented you from moving back to Singapore last year but, when I didn't even know you were supposed to come home.
You have every reason to be upset.
I'm not done yet! There was also the gutted, bloody fish that Araminta's friends left for me in my hotel room on my bed next to the words 'Catch this, you gold-digging bitch'... written in big fat serial-killer letters.
So your family is, like, rich?
We're comfortable.
That is exactly what a super-rich person would say.
So, if you have all this family there, why are we staying in a hotel? Aren't good Chinese sons supposed to stay with their parents?
Well, because A: I'm not that good a son, and B: I just want you to myself, just for a bit.
Thanks for meeting me here.
[Eleanor eyes the other two women at the mahjong table]
Don't worry about them. They're half-deaf and they only speak Hokkien.
[Long pause as Eleanor reluctantly settles into her seat]
My mom taught me how to play. She told me mahjong would teach me important life skills: Negotiation. Strategy. Cooperation.
You asked me here, I assume it's not for a Mahjong lesson. [Shows her tiles] Pong. My mother taught me too.
I know Nick told you the truth about my mom, but you didn't like me the second I got here. Why is that?
There is a Hokkien phrase 'kaki lang'. It means: our own kind of people, and you're not our own kind.
Because I'm not rich? Because I didn't go to a British boarding school, or wasn't born into a wealthy family?
You're a foreigner. American – and all Americans think about is their own happiness.
Don't you want Nick to be happy?
It's an illusion. We understand how to build things that last. Something you know nothing about.
You don't know me.
I know you're not what Nick needs.
[pauses]
Well he proposed to me yesterday. [pauses] He said he'd walk away from his family and from you for good. [pauses] Don't worry, I turned him down.
Mm no. There's no winning. You made sure of that. 'Cause if Nick chose me, he would lose his family. And if he chose his family, he might spend the rest of his life resenting you.
I'm not leaving because I'm scared, or because I think I'm not enough – because maybe for the first time in my life, I know I am. [Choking back tears] I just love Nick so much, I don't want him to lose his mom again. So I just wanted you to know: that one day – when he marries another lucky girl who is enough for you, and you're playing with your grandkids while the Tan Hua's are blooming, and the birds are chirping – that it was because of me: a poor, raised by a single mother, low class, immigrant nobody.
Why didn't you tell me about my father?
Kerry Chu
My husband wasn't a good man. He hurt me. But an old schoolmate of mine helped me through things and we fell in love and I got pregnant with his baby, that's you. I was so afraid my husband would find out and kill us both, so I just took you and I ran to America.
[in Singapore Changi Airport]
Wow, I can't believe this airport has a butterfly garden, and a movie theater. JFK's just salmonella and despair.
[to Rachel]
Good for you. Walking away from Nick and his family's fat-ass property portfolio. You have no one, no net worth, but you have integrity. That's why I respect you.