"[to Flap] Raising three children, working full-time, and chasing women requires a lot more energy than you have. You know, one of the nicest qualities about you has always been that you recognized your weaknesses. Don't lose that quality now just when you need it the most."

"[to Aurora] Momma, that's the first time I stopped hugging first. I like that."

"[Lying in the surf after being thrown from the car] If you wanted to get me on my back, all you had to do was ask me."

"Shirley MacLaine - Aurora Greenway"

"[about Flap] He can't even do the simple things, like fail locally."

"[to Vernon] Don't worship me until I've earned it."

"[Vikas Swarup, author of the book on which the movie is based] explained how he had named the protagonist Ram Mohammed Thomas, representing every street kid in India, while Boyle had changed this into Jamal Malik, a fully Muslim name. He communalized the plot, with Jamal’s mother being killed by Hindu communal rioters and a Rama impersonation presiding over the violence. Boyle turned the protagonist into a poor hapless Muslim and the Hindus into the bad guys. In this context, blinding a child-beggar to make him earn more by singing a Hindu religious song (a practice of which even the missionary sister Jeanne Devos says she has never come across an actual case during decades of social work in Mumbai), and of course not a Muslim song, adds to the image of Hinduism as gruesome. Briefly, he turned an innocent story into an anti-Hindu story... The fact that the writer, as a somewhat secularized Hindu, representative for dozens or even hundreds of millions of similar Hindus, fails to see the hostile intention and the very partisan effect of this manipulation, says a lot about the silly and ultimately suicidal mentality prevalent among Hindus. Only a community of sleepwalkers could willingly come to the humiliating situation of the Hindus in India and the flood of anti-Hindu slander in the media."

"Tanvi Ganesh Lonkar - Middle Latika"

"Tanay Chheda - Middle Jamal"

"Ayush Mahesh Khedekar - Youngest Jamal"

"Ashutosh Lobo Gajiwala - Middle Salim"

"Anil Kapoor - Prem Kumar"

"Saurabh Shukla - Sergeant Srinivas"

"Ankur Vikal - Maman"

"Madhur Mittal - Salim"

"Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail - Youngest Salim"

"Rajendranath Zutshi - Director"

"Freida Pinto - Latika"

"[to Latika] I will wait for you, 5 pm everyday at the train station."

"I wake up every morning wishing I didn't know the answer to that question. If it wasn't for Rama and Allah, I'd still have a mother."

"Police Inspector: Money and women: the reasons for make most mistakes in life. Looks like you've mixed up both."

"Prem Kumar: A few hours ago, you were giving chai for the phone walahs. And now you're richer than they will ever be. What a player!"

"Dev Patel - Jamal K. Malik"

"Rubina Ali - Youngest Latika"

"Edwin Maxwell - Dr Waitz"

"Tully Marshall - Gerstenkorn"

"Frank Conroy - Rohna"

"Murray Kinnell - Schweimann"

"Ferdinand Gottschalk - Pimenov"

"Rafaela Ottiano - Suzette"

"Morgan Wallace - the chauffeur"

"Greta Garbo - Grusinskaya, the dancer"

"John Barrymore - the Baron Felix von Gaigern"

"Joan Crawford - Flaemmchen, the stenographer"

"I don't know much about women. I've been married for 28 years, you know."