Africa quotes

“The lion may be the 8th best predator in Africa, but in Australia, crocs rule!”
Steve Irwin - Steve Irwin

“- Karen Smith: If you're from Africa, why are you white?
- Gretchen Wieners: Oh my God, Karen, you can't just ask people why they're white.”
Amanda Seyfried - Karen Smith
Lacey Chabert - Gretchen Wieners

“You have any idea what's going on in the Congo as of the radio show this morning? The Kigani have had it with Zaire, and they're eating people. You go in there with Robertson Reynolds, you'll be coming out somebody's bowel movement.”

Joe Pantoliano - Eddie Ventro

“No, there are no murders in Africa. Only regrettable deaths. And from those deaths we derive the benefits of civilization, benefits we can afford so easily... because those lives were bought so cheaply.”
Richard McCabe - Arthur Hammond

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

“I will take your case if only to make it abundantly clear how justice in South Africa is misapplied when it comes to the question of race.”
Marlon Brando - McKenzie

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

You know, when I was a doctor in London, no one ever said “medahani”. They don't thank you like they thank you here, ‘cause here they feel everything, straight from God. There's no drugs, no painkillers. It's the weirdest, purest thing, suffering. And when you've seen that kind of courage in a child... How could you ever want to do anything but... (continue)(continue reading)

Clive Owen - Nick Callahan

“- Huck Finn: What in hell's bells are you supposed to be?
- Jim: The King said I was a Swahili warrior. He even taught me some Swahili or what he said was Swahili. Sounded like a pig in heat to me.”

Elijah Wood - Huck Finn
Courtney B. Vance - Jim

“I don't know why they named that boy that African name. Knowing he’s from Cleveland!”
Robin Harris - Pop

“I'll bet you can buy a great townhouse down here for around five or six dollars.”
Danny DeVito - Ralph

“- Flan Kittredge: Why do you stay in South Africa?
- Geoffrey: One has to stay there. To educate the black workers. And we'll know we've been successful when they kill us.
- Ouisa Kittredge: Oh, goodness.
- Flan Kittredge: Planning the revolution that will destroy you.”
Donald Sutherland - Flan
Sir Ian McKellen - Geoffrey
Stockard Channing - Ouisa

“Don't worry. It's Africa. Nobody cares about Africa.”
Lambert Wilson - General Zateb Kazim

“I had a farm in Africa at the foot of the Ngong Hills. The Equator runs across these highlands, a hundred miles to the north, and the farm lay at an altitude of over six thousand feet. In the day-time you felt that you had got high up; near to the sun, but the early mornings and evenings were limpid and restful, and the nights were cold.”
Meryl Streep - Karen

“Man it's hot. It's like Africa hot. Tarzan couldn't take this kind of hot.”
Matthew Broderick - Eugene Morris Jerome

“- John Quincy Adams: [referring to African slaves] What is their story, by the way?
- Theodore Joadson: Sir?
- John Quincy Adams: What is their story?
- Theodore Joadson: Why, they're… they're from west Africa.
- John Quincy Adams: No. What is their story? Mr. Joadson, you're from where originally?
- Theodore Joadson: Why, Georgia, sir.
- John...” (continue)(continue reading)
Philip Anthony Hopkins - John Quincy Adams
Morgan Freeman - Theodore Joadson

“- Euripides: Did you know a black man invented ice cream?
- Albert: No, no, no. Now, how the hell a black man gonna invent ice cream in hot-ass Africa? Tell me that!”
Allen Payne - Euripides

“When these little African countries get into a dispute, they tend to just murder everybody. They live for the opportunity to settle scores... and they have a lot of scores to settle.”
Ernie Hudson - Captain Monroe Kelly

“It's our country, Ben, we made every inch of it! Look at the rest of Africa, it's a mess... It's like in war. You have to choose sides. You are not one of them and they don't want you to be!”

Janet Suzman - Susan

“Goodbye, you worthless son of a bitch. Goodbye, you pearl of Central East Africa. Goodbye, you lake flies. Goodbye, you flat-chested, bucktoothed women. Goodbye, forever.”
Clint Eastwood - John Wilson

“- Consulate Envoy: I don't think you want to go to South Africa.
- Roger Murtaugh: Why not?
- Consulate Envoy: Because you're black!”
Jim Piddock - Consulate Envoy
Danny Glover - Roger Murtaugh

“Justice and law, Mr. Du Toit, are often just... well they're, I suppose they can be described as distant cousins. And here in South Africa, well, they're simply not on speaking terms at all.”
Marlon Brando - McKenzie