Dr. Merrit
[to Nicholas]
You know, the interesting thing is, 80% of the locals prefer the witch doctor to us. Sometimes I just think we're just skimming the surface of an ocean.
Idi Amin
Forest Whitaker · 12 quotes
Nicholas Garrigan
James McAvoy · 11 quotes
Most scenes together: Idi Amin & Nicholas Garrigan (7)
The Last King of Scotland quotes
Page 1 of 2I am ashamed that you saw me like that. I was frightened.
I'm a doctor. Everything that passes between us is confidential. Ok? I've taken an oath.
But a man that shows fear... he is weak, and he is a slave.
Well... if you're afraid of dying, shows you have a life worth keeping.
I want you to tell me what to do.
You want ME to tell YOU what to do?
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.
I DID!
But you did not persuade me, Nicholas. You did not persuade me!
You are British?
Scottish. I am Scottish.
Scottish? Ha! Ha! Why didn't you say so?... Great soldiers. Very brave. And good people. Completely. Let me tell you, if I could be anything instead of a Ugandan, I would be a Scot.
Right... Really?
He. Except for the red hair, which I'm sure is attractive to your women, but which we Africans, we find is quite disgusting.
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.
You're a child. You have the mind and ego of an angry, spoiled, uneducated child. And that's what makes you so **** scary.
You promised to me you would help me build a new Uganda. You swore an oath.
The oath is... erm... it's, it's a doctor's oath of confidentiality; we all take it. It's got nothing to do with Uganda.
Huh? Nothing? Nothing comes from nothing. You have a conscience, I know you do. That is why you came here in the first place. Or are you like all the other British? Just here to **** and to take away? No? Why else would I trust you with my family? You are like my own son.
My name is Nicholas Garrigan, and I'm from Scotland. I need to go home now.
Your home... is here.
I can't. It **** stinks. I can't help coming back to that moment when I asked you to talk to him. This isn't me. I have to go home now.
You cannot.
What?
Your work is not finished here yet.
I didn't want him to die though.
But you did it. Why? You want to know why?
Yes.
You did it because you love me.
Why are you doing this?
Dr. Junju
Frankly, I don't know. You deserve to die. But dead, you can do nothing. Alive, you might just be able to redeem yourself.
I don't understand.
Dr. Junju
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.
Nigel Stone
This man is trying to help his country. Idi always seems to get it wrong, doesn't he?
Jesus ****in' Christ! Get me out of here!
Nigel Stone
You earn your passage, friend.
Wh-what?
Nigel Stone
You know what they're calling you? His white monkey.
I'm his doctor. It's not my job to judge the man.
Nigel Stone
[Mimicking him]
"I'm his doctor?" Is that your defense? **** off, Garrigan! We don't just hand out passports to chimps like you! Particularly not chimps with blood on their hands!
[about Nicholas]
You see, Jonah? This is the sort of man a president needs around him. Someone who is not afraid to speak his mind.
Almost all aberrations of nature are possible.
I am the father of this nation, Nicholas. And you have most... grossly... offended your father.
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. This room here, it is real. I think your death will be the first real thing that has happened to you.
They take you to a tree and hang you by your skin. Each time you scream the evil comes out of you. Sometimes, it can take three days for your evil to be spent. Pull him up.