- Police Inspector: [whispering] Doctors... Lawyers... never get past 60 thousand rupees. He's won 10 million.
- [pause]
- Police Inspector: What the hell can a slumdog possibly know?
- Jamal Malik: [quietly] The answers.
- [spits out blood]
- Jamal Malik: [quietly and gently] I knew the answers.
- Prem Kumar: It's getting hot in here.
- Jamal Malik: Are you nervous?
- Prem Kumar: [audience laughs] What? Am I nervous ? It's you who's in the hot seat, my friend!
- Jamal Malik: Yes, sorry.
- Prem Kumar: Final question for twenty million rupees, and he's smiling. I guess you know the answer.
- Jamal Malik: Do you believe it, I don't!
- Prem Kumar: You don't? So you take the ten million and walk?
- Jamal Malik: No. I'll play.
- [last lines]
- Jamal Malik: I knew you'd be watching.
- Latika: I thought we would meet only in death.
- Jamal Malik: This is our destiny.
- Latika: Kiss me.
- Police Inspector: Money and women - the reasons for making most mistakes in life. Looks like you've mixed up both.
- [after being beaten by a cop for vandalizing a car]
- Jamal Malik: [to an American tourist couple] You wanted to see a bit of the real India?
- Jamal Malik: [angrily to the cop] Here it is!
- Youngest Jamal: I just need Maman to like my singing, and we're in the money - big money, Latika.
- Youngest Latika: And then what? Can we stop begging?
- Youngest Jamal: Begging? Are you kidding? We'll live in a big house on Harbour Road. You, me and Salim, the three musketeers.
- Youngest Latika: Harbour Road? Really?
- Youngest Jamal: Yes, in the moonlight. You and me. You'll dance with me won't you?
- [dances]
- Youngest Latika: [laughs] I hope you sing better than you dance.
- Older Salim: Left a message for you at work.
- Jamal Malik: There was no message.
- Older Salim: I definitely left a mess...
- Jamal Malik: There was no message! There was no message! THERE WAS NO MESSAGE!
- Jamal Malik: [Looks down at Salim starting to cry a little]
- Jamal Malik: I will never forgive you!
- Older Salim: I know.
- Middle Jamal: [after being thrown off a train and seeing the Taj Mahal in the distance] Is this heaven?
- Middle Salim: You're not dead, Jamal.
- Middle Jamal: What is it? Some hotel?
- Prem Kumar: So are you ready for the final question for 20 million rupees?
- Jamal Malik: No, but maybe its written, no?
- Prem Kumar: Maybe...
- Prem Kumar: [starting lines] So, Jamal, tell me something about yourself.
- Jamal Malik: I work in a call centre in Juhu.
- Prem Kumar: Phone basher! And what type of call center would that be?
- Jamal Malik: XL5 mobile phones.
- Prem Kumar: Ohh... so you're the one who calls me up every single day of my life with special offers?
- Jamal Malik: Actually I'm an assistant.
- Prem Kumar: An assistant phone basher? And what does an assistant phone basher do exactly?
- Jamal Malik: I get tea for people and...
- Prem Kumar: Chaiwalah! Well ladies and gentlemen, Jamal Malik, garma garam chai dene walah from Mumbai, lets play Who Wants To Be A Millionaire!
- Maman: Jamal, the time has come to turn professional.
- Youngest Jamal: Really?
- Maman: But first, let me hear that song Darshan Do Ghanshyam, my favorite bhajan.
- Youngest Jamal: [sings] Darshan Do...
- [stops and commands]
- Youngest Jamal: Fifty rupees!
- [Maman looks bewildered]
- Youngest Jamal: I'm a professional now, what to do?
- Maman: [laughs] Cheeky little bugger!
- 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!
- Prem Kumar: [to the audience] Ladies and gentlemen, what a player!
- [audience applauds]
- [after he admitted to his show's director that he tried to cheat out Jamal with a wrong answer on a question, after getting Jamal arrested]
- Prem Kumar: What does it matter? It's my show. It's... MY FUCKING SHOW!
- [Salim and Jamal are sitting on the edge of an under construction apartment building]
- Older Salim: That... used to be our slum. Can you believe that, huh?
- [pointing at something]
- Older Salim: We used to live right there, man. Now, it's all business. India is at the center of the world now, bhai. And I... I am at the center... of the center. This is all Javed bhai's.
- Jamal Malik: Javed Khan... the gangster from our slum? You work for him?
- Older Salim: Come on, who else do you think would save us from Maman's guys, huh?
- Jamal Malik: What do you do for him?
- Older Salim: Anything he asks.
- [pause in conversation, as Salim's phone rings]
- Older Salim: He's coming. You need to go now. Take my card.
- Jamal Malik: What for?
- Older Salim: You think I'm gonna let you out of my sight again, huh? You stay with me now, younger brother. Now go. My place.
- Jamal Malik: Salim, where is Latika?
- Older Salim: Still...? She's gone, brother. Long gone. Now go. Go to my place.
- Shruti Seth: Baali, keep up! The chaiwalah knows more than you.
- Jamal Malik: Why does everyone love this program?
- Latika: It's a chance to escape, isn't it? Walk into another life.
- Police Inspector: You puzzle me, slumdog, admitting murder to avoid the charge of fraud... is not exactly clever thinking.
- Prem Kumar: Guy from the slums... becomes a millionaire overnight. Do you know who's the only other person who's done that? Me. I know what it feels like. I know what you've been through.