Crazy Rich Asians
Crazy Rich Asians

Astrid Young Teo: It was never my job to make you feel like a man. I can't make you something you're not.

Crazy Rich Asians
Crazy Rich Asians

Rachel Chu: Thanks for meeting me here.
[Eleanor eyes the other two women at the mahjong table]
Rachel Chu: Don't worry about them. They're half-deaf and they only speak Hokkien.
[Long pause as Eleanor reluctantly settles into her seat]
Rachel Chu: My mom taught me how to play. She told me mahjong would teach me

important life skills: Negotiation. Strategy. Cooperation.
Eleanor Young: You asked me here, I assume it's not for a mahjong lesson.
[Shows her tiles]
Eleanor Young: Pong.
[Snidely remarks]
Eleanor Young: My mother taught me too.
Rachel Chu: I know Nick told you the truth about my mom, but

you didn't like me the second I got here. Why is that?
Eleanor Young: There is a Hokkien phrase 'kaki lang'. It means: our own kind of people, and you're not our own kind.
Rachel Chu: Because I'm not rich? Because I didn't go to a British boarding school, or wasn't born into a wealthy family?
Eleanor Young: You're a foreigner.

American - and all Americans think about is their own happiness.
Rachel Chu: Don't you want Nick to be happy?
Eleanor Young: It's an illusion. We understand how to build things that last. Something you know nothing about.
Rachel Chu: You don't know me.
Eleanor Young: I know you're not what Nick needs.


Rachel Chu: [pauses] Well he proposed to me yesterday.
[pauses]
Rachel Chu: He said he'd walk away from his family and from you for good.
[pauses]
Rachel Chu: Don't worry, I turned him down.
Eleanor Young: [sighs] Only a fool folds a winning hand.
Rachel Chu: 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.
Eleanor Young: [after a long pause] So you chose for him...
Rachel Chu: 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]
Rachel Chu: 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 Huas are blooming, and the birds are chirping - that it was because of me: a poor, raised by

a single mother, low class, immigrant nobody.
[Shows her tiles. Gets up. Walks to her mom, who turns and glares at Eleanor]

Crazy Rich Asians
Crazy Rich Asians

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.

Crazy Rich Asians
Crazy Rich Asians

Rachel Chu: I'm so Chinese I'm an econ professor with lactose intolerance.

Crazy Rich Asians
Crazy Rich Asians

Astrid Young Teo: God forbid we lose the ancient Chinese tradition of guilting your children.

Crazy Rich Asians
Crazy Rich Asians

Peik Lin Goh: Chinese sons think their moms fart Chanel No. 5.

Crazy Rich Asians
Crazy Rich Asians

Rachel Chu: I can't believe this airport has a butterfly garden and a movie theatre. JFK is just salmonella and despair.

Crazy Rich Asians
Crazy Rich Asians

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.

Crazy Rich Asians
Crazy Rich Asians

Oliver T'sien: Your skin is so dry it's hurting my face.

Crazy Rich Asians
Crazy Rich Asians

Peik Lin Goh: [to Rachel] She just think you're some like unrefined banana. Yellow on the outside, and white on the inside.

Crazy Rich Asians
Crazy Rich Asians

Peik Lin Goh: You kind of look like a slutty Ebola virus.

Crazy Rich Asians
Crazy Rich Asians

Eleanor Young: Is this a church? Or a paddy field?

Crazy Rich Asians
Crazy Rich Asians

Rachel Chu: [Incredulous] You have a cocktail dress in your trunk?
Peik Lin Goh: I'm not an animal, Rachel.

Crazy Rich Asians
Crazy Rich Asians

Rachel Chu: So your family is, like, rich?
Nick Young: We're comfortable.
Rachel Chu: That is exactly what a super-rich person would say.

Crazy Rich Asians
Crazy Rich Asians

Felicity Young: You can explore hell, you dog turd.

Crazy Rich Asians
Crazy Rich Asians

Eddie Cheng: If you'd worn the gown, we would have been on American Vogue!
Fiona Cheng: You can wear the gown to hell, Eddie.

Crazy Rich Asians
Crazy Rich Asians

Rachel Chu: Our brains so hate the idea of losing something that's valuable to us that we abandon all rational thought, and we make some really poor decisions. So, Curtis wasn't playing to win. He was playing not to lose.

Crazy Rich Asians
Crazy Rich Asians

Peik Lin Goh: [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.

Crazy Rich Asians
Crazy Rich Asians

Peik Lin Goh: They're so posh and snobby, it's snoshy!

Crazy Rich Asians
Crazy Rich Asians

[Served with extravagant dinner portions at the family table, Rachel is eating rather modestly at Peik Lin Goh's parents house]
Neenah Goh: Don't stand on ceremony, Rachel. This is simple food, lah.
Wye Mun Goh: Ha, cha-cha-cha. Dooon't beeee shyyyy!
[hands Rachel a giant platter of food]
Wye Mun Goh: You're not a

model.
[laughs playfully]
Rachel Chu: I am definitely not.
Wye Mun Goh: No, you're not! Not at all, you're far from it.
Rachel Chu: [laughs nervously] I know.
Wye Mun Goh: And make sure ya eat it all cuz I'm watching you.
Rachel Chu: Okay, thank you.
Goh

Twin Girl #1Goh Twin Girl #2: [in unison] Apa, can we go trampoline?
Wye Mun Goh: Uh, you haven't finished your nuggets yet, sweetie. Okay, there's a lotta children starving in America. Right? I mean, take a look at her.
[pointing tactlessly at Rachel]
Wye Mun Goh: She's American! Huh? Really skinny. You wanna

look like THAT?
Goh Twin Girl #1Goh Twin Girl #2: [in unison] Nooooo!
Wye Mun Goh: THEN EAT YOUR NUGGETS!