Nigeria Quotes

I don`t think I`ll ever escape the fact that I don`t belong anywhere in particular. I`ve often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that`s a very romantic notion. It`s a hideous country to go to in reality.

(on Anthony Head) "I can`t say enough about Anthony - he is one of the better actors I`ve ever worked with. He is the shit. He does the heavy lifting for the show with all that exposition. Every week he has to convince us that the world is going to come to an end again and again. He`s got to talk about the Box of Tathor or the Talisman of Nigeria or whatever and sell it. He has to give it weight so it doesn`t seem repetitious. He does that every time so well. And I knew Spike was a cool character when Anthony said so. So I had always wanted to do a scene with him." (May 2000)

There`s nothing like going off and doing a film in Nigeria, Papua New Guinea or Santa Fe, it`s the best and most exhilarating. I mean it sorts the men from the boys, really, where you have to figure out who really wants to do it and who`s good at their job. When you go off to distant locations, especially if they`re tough, it weeds those people out, but hopefully you don`t have to weed anybody out, because you`ve got everybody on board who really wants to go out and work hard - fourteen-, sixteen-, eighteen-hour days in the wilderness, in a great city or some backwater, but those are the best.

When I was 24 I went to Nigeria and it was such a culture shock, growing up in Australia and suddenly being the only white man in this unit full of black men.

My Mom, she`s from Ireland, coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a Missionary and turned me on to it when I was young.

I will then proceed to exercise the invitation granted to me by the president of Nigeria.

You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren`t allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones.

This has a lot to do with the unrest in Nigeria, but also with the production loss after the hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, the decline in Iraq since the 2003 war, and the decline in Venezuelan output since 2002.

I am making this trip to Africa because Washington is an international city, just like Tokyo, Nigeria or Israel. As mayor, I am an international symbol. Can you deny that to Africa?

Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.

Let me make a solemn pledge before all of you, before the whole world and before God, that I will devote all my energy and all I possess in my power to serve the people of Nigeria and humanity.

My joy knows no bounds... I will devote all my energy and all the powers available to me to the service of Nigeria and humanity.

Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.

The attacks in Nigeria on a pipeline, and the kidnapping of oil workers is nothing new for that region.

After Christmas we had two crises. The problems in Nigeria had a short fuse and there was an immediate drop in shipments while the situation in Iran has a much longer fuse.