Olivia Carolyn Pope quotes from Scandal

Olivia

I'll wait for you, Fitz. For as long as you need.

I changed my mind about that. Don't wait for me.

Olivia

Work helps. So does exercise. Stuff that numbs you, keeps you from thinking too much. :Dating also helps, but, it also helps to remember that he hates you and it helps to try to hate him too.

Abby

And that works for you?

Olivia

I was talking about you and David.

David

How much do I owe you?

Olivia

What?

David

For your services? Or did you take a commission when I sold my soul to the Devil?

Jake

It's a date.

Olivia

What?

Jake

It's a date. You said meeting. I'm not a client. I don't have a problem. I don't need fixing. I asked you out. You said yes. We dressed up. At the end of the evening, if all goes well, there will be kissing. This is not a meeting. This is a date. And I don't want to insult you. You chose this restaurant. I'm sure the food is very good, but this is not a date restaurant. You can't have a date here. This is where dates go to die. You look extraordinary, by the way.

Cyrus

This is Mellie we're talking about.

Olivia

Let Mellie be. That's how you fight her. Don't over think it. Just let her be. Let Mellie do what Mellie's going to do. When it comes to Fitz, Mellie's her own worst enemy. Eventually she's going to go too far and cross him. You just need to be there when she does.

Olivia

I'm apolitical you know that.

Cyrus

Is your vagina apolitical?

You have some job. Fixer. How do you fix betrayal?

Olivia

Sarah, you betrayed him. You did. You messed up, and there's a price. Betrayal always has a price. But let me ask you something. Is he a good dad?

He is a great dad.

Olivia

You did what you thought was best at the time. Even if it was wrong, you thought it was best. You can't change the choice you made. All you can do is not let it ruin you.

Harrison

Hey Liv, let me ask you a question. Why are we helping Doyle? Why is the devil our client?

Olivia

Because even the devil loves his kids.

Cyrus

Let me get this straight. Highly trained Black Ops assassins broke into your home and tried to kill you and instead of, oh, making a run toward reason, instead of the possibility of death making you decide that maybe it's better to be single, you have decided that the killers were merely firing heart-shaped bullets made out of bubbles and candy to signify that you and your boyfriend Fitzy are MFEO, made for each other?

Olivia

Cyrus, you're being dramatic.

Cyrus

I've moved Heaven and Earth to save you from yourselves. I have lied for you. I have stolen for you. I have cheated for you. I have killed for you. I have almost died for you. And you, you two are so stupid and romantic and high on your own doomed love, Romeo and Juliet, Dear Diary nonsense that you won't even save your own lives, but I am being dramatic? The love of your life is a red-handed, cold-blooded killer. That is what you're dealing with. That is who you love.

Olivia

We went too far. My people – Huck and Harrison and Abby and Quinn... I took them too far over the wrong cliff. We went so far that I don't know that we can get back, but you can get back. Run with Mellie by your side. You can win with Mellie by your side.

You are going to be my First Lady.

Olivia

I can't leave them. They need me. I'm their Gladiator.

Somewhere, in another life, another reality, we're married. And we have four kids. And we live in Vermont, and I'm the Mayor...

Olivia

And I make jam.

And you make jam.

Olivia

What do you do for a living? And don't tell me it's fossils or exhibitions or publishing papers. Don't lie. What do you do for a living, Dad? Do you teach people how to kill? Do you throw them in a hole until they go insane? Do you work in Wonderland?

Rowan

I'm your father. So I'm going to explain to you how you are to behave in my presence. You do not ask questions that you cannot handle the answer to. You do not make judgments about things you cannot imagine. You don't know me that way. You don't ever want to know me that way. But if you push, you will know me well, and that would break my heart, because I'm enjoying these Sunday dinners that you make me pay for. Now you are on my dime. Pick up your menu, order your meal, and tell me about your day.

Mellie

I came up with a list of men. Eligible bachelors. Prominent, smart. Pick one.

Olivia

Pick one?

Mellie

Any one of them, it's an equal opportunity list. Tall, short, black, white, Republican, Democrat. I don't care who, just pick one and start dating him. Publicly. So the everyone can stop thinking that you're screwing my husband. Smile, Olivia. The world is watching.

Jake

And one more thing...

Olivia

What?

Jake

Stock...your damn...fridge. If I'm going to be your fake boyfriend all day, I'm going to come home at the end of it and drink real beer and eat real food. Wine is not beer and popcorn is not food.

Olivia

You went too far with Quinn.

Huck

No. You went too far.

Olivia

Excuse me?

Huck

You took in a wild monster and you groomed me and petted me and trained me to sit at your feet. But that doesn't mean I'm a puppy, Liv. That just makes me a very loyal monster. So I didn't go too far. I went exactly as far as my leash allows, and you hold the leash. You ruined her life and then you made me save her and then you gave her to me to take under my wing.