- Guo Yi: You know, Okwe, good at chess usually means bad at life. You do realize that she's in love with you, don't you? I've been with her 20 minutes, and I know it. But then, I'm bad at chess...
- The doctor: How come I've never seen you people before?
- Okwe: Because we are the people you do not see. We are the ones who drive your cabs. We clean your rooms. And suck your cocks.
- Senay: I bit, Okwe. At the factory. He said he would report me to immigration, and he made me suck. But today I bit. I bit. I bit.
- Sneaky: The hotel business is about strangers. And strangers will always surprise you, you know. They come to hotels in the night to do dirty things. And in the morning, it's our job to make things look pretty again.
- Okwe: [at airport arrivals] I'm not here specifically for you. But I am here to rescue people from the system.
- [first lines]
- Okwe: Do you want a car? Ten pounds, Theatreland. Car? London? You want a taxi? Buckingham Palace.
- Sweatshop Foreman: I'm a good man, Senay. I know where to draw the line. I don't want to take your virginity, Senay. I just want you to help me to relax. You have such a beautiful mouth, Senay.
- Guo Yi: [At the pathology lab where corpses are dissected] Welcome to my hotel. And the other residents are very quiet.
- Juliette: Can you believe it? One of the fuckers wanted to put me on his Visa card! Oh, my bloomin' feet! Lucky I don't work standing up! What? Don't they have hookers where you come from? Where are you from? Somewhere with lions, I bet. I like lions. Right. Oh, yeah. You might want to send someone to check on the room.
- Okwe: There is a problem?
- Juliette: How should I know? I don't exist, do I? See you tomorrow.
- Cab Controller: You're a doctor.
- Okwe: I'm a driver.
- Cab Controller: Look, they say you're a doctor, right? You get me something now. I can't piss fire another day, man.
- Okwe: I'm a driver.
- Guo Yi: I don't ask questions after eleven years here, and I'm a certified refugee. You're an illegal, Okwe. You don't have a position here. You have nothing. You are nothing.
- Ivan: Everyone leaves, Okwe. Some leave quickly. Some stay for a long time. If you want to stay, don't concern yourself with who comes and who goes.
- Okwe: This is a recipe from Nigeria. In Nigeria they do many interesting things with pork. But of course, I used lamb.
- Sweatshop Foreman: If they find out you've been working, what will they do? They will put you in prison. And here, they mix the men and women. So, every night you will be raped. If you want to be like a Western girl, that's what happens to Western girls.
- Guo Yi: Best if you don't show up until after five. Most porters are gone by then. Only ghosts left.
- Okwe: Senay, you should keep away from me. You lost your job. Because of me, you are in a sweatshop.
- Sneaky: You give me your kidney, I give you a new identity. I sell the kidney for ten grand, so I'm happy. The person who needs the kidney gets cured. So, he's happy. The person who sold his kidney gets to stay in this beautiful country, so he's happy. My whole business is based on happiness.
- Ivan: Cold tonight, huh? On a night like this, who would want so much ice?
- Guo Yi: You are Pylades. Pylades was the boatman who ferried the souls to the land of the dead. If you didn't put a coin under the tongue of your dead relative, Pylades wouldn't take them to Hades. No matter how good you had been in your life.