“The Last King of Scotland” quotes

My father left me when I was a child. The British Army became my home. They took me as a cleaner, in the kitchens, cleaning pots. They used to beat me. "Beat this wall, Amin". "Dig the latreen, Amin". And now, here I am. The President of Uganda. And who put me here, huh? It was the British.
Forest Whitaker - Idi Amin

“- Idi Amin: You dare try to poison me? After everything I gave you? I am Idi Amin! President-for-life and ruler of Uganda. I am the father of Africa.
- Nicholas Garrigan: You're a child. You have the mind and ego of an angry, spoiled, uneducated child. And that's what makes you so fucking scary.”
Forest Whitaker - Idi Amin
James McAvoy - Nicholas Garrigan

“You see, Jonah? This is the sort of man a president needs around him. Someone who is not afraid to speak his mind.”

Forest Whitaker - Idi Amin

“- Djonjo: I am tired of hatred, Doctor Garrigan. This country is drowning in it. We deserve better... Go home. Tell the world the truth about Amin. They will believe you; you are a white man.”

“- Djonjo: You deserve to die. But dead, you can do nothing. Alive, you might just be able to redeem yourself.”

David Oyelowo - Djonjo
James McAvoy - Nicholas Garrigan

“- Idi Amin: But a man that shows fear... he is weak, and he is a slave.
- Nicholas Garrigan: Well... if you're afraid of dying, shows you have a life worth keeping.”
Forest Whitaker - Idi Amin
James McAvoy - Nicholas Garrigan

“Almost all aberrations of nature are possible.”
James McAvoy - Nicholas Garrigan

“This is Africa. You meet violence with violence. Anything else, and you're dead.”
James McAvoy - Nicholas Garrigan

“- Nicholas Garrigan: You want me to tell you what to do?
- Idi Amin: Yes, you are my advisor. You are the only one I can trust in here. You should have told me not to throw the Asians out, in the first place.
- Nicholas Garrigan: I did!
- Idi Amin: But you did not persuade me, Nicholas. You did not persuade me!”
James McAvoy - Nicholas Garrigan
Forest Whitaker - Idi Amin

Look at you. Is there one thing you have done that is good? Did you think this was all a game? "I will go to Africa and I will play the white man with the natives". Is that what you thought? We are not a game, Nicholas. We are real.
Forest Whitaker - Idi Amin