Quinn Perkins quotes from Scandal

Quinn

I am not a murderer and I am not a liar, and I'm not going anywhere. So the sooner you get over it, the better. And I go by one name now and it's not Lindsay.

Quinn

Listen, Zeke. "Darling" has a law degree from Stanford and the Chief of Police on speed dial. I sat outside here for an hour and watched three ladies enter with three gentlemen, each of whom departed with a spring in his step and probably $200 bucks poorer. So I suggest you go ahead and let 'darling' take a look at the damn security cams.

Quinn

Hollis Doyle stole my future and that I could have let that get to me. I could have let that eat me alive. You didn't let me. I don't know why being locked in that crate got you. I don't know what it means or what happened or why. But you're letting it eat you alive. You're letting it steal your life and you can't do that. You have to just let it go. Whatever it was. you have to let it go. You're a gladiator. You can do this. You can fight this. I will help you.

Quinn

I spent three whole months keeping tabs on this office. I went to see you every day at the computer store. I constantly checked in with Abby at the White House. I found you halfway across the world. I'm the one who made sure this place didn't die. And I go M.I.A. for a whole day and no one even bats an eye. That is unacceptable. That is how Harrison died. We weren't vigilant. We didn't pay attention. So when one of us goes missing for twenty-four hours, the other ones freakin' look for them.

Harrison

Do you wanna be a Gladiator?

Quinn

Yes.

Harrison

You have to say it.

Quinn

I wanna be a Gladiator in a suit.

Quinn

Ms. Pope... Can I just say I'm a huge fan? I so admire your work in the White House. It's an honor to work for your law firm.

Olivia

We're not a law firm. We're lawyers, but this is not a law firm.

Stephen

Law firms are for pansies.

Olivia

Harrison feed you a line about being a gladiator in a suit?

Harrison

Liv...

Quinn

He did. And I'm ready. To gladiate. Or...whatever.

Quinn

So I read you guys don't try cases? You don't go to court?

Harrison

If we do our job right, we never need to go to court. Look, the reason we're not a law firm? We don't have to play within the rules of the law. We're fixers, crisis managers. We make the problems of our clients go away. Big or small. It's not about solving some crime. It's not about justice. It's about our client.

Quinn

You said we were the good guys.

Harrison

We are.

Quinn

Really? I mean... Is Olivia? Is she one of the good guys?

Harrison

No. She's not one of the good guys. She's the best guy. It's not enough to say it. You gotta believe it.

Quinn

Gladiators. In suits.

Quinn

So we lost? I mean what happens when we lose? We're just done?

Olivia

We're never done. If we lose this round, we prep him for appeal. If we lose that, we prep him for a second appeal, because whatever happens, there's always another move. Whatever happens, we do not give up. It is my name on that door, and I do not give up.

Quinn

We should be doing things. Things should be happening. Shouldn't we at least file a missing persons report?

Harrison

Just 'cause you don't see things happening... doesn't mean things aren't happening. With Olivia, things are always happening.

Harrison

Gladiators in suits, remember? You know I've gotta make you say it.

Quinn

Gladiators in suits.

Quinn

I'm trying to be just another associate at Pope and Associates, but every time I look at Olivia... I think, "This woman saved my life and she won't tell me how and she won't tell me why." And I know she's done things for all of us, fixed all of us, but no one asks her any questions. We all just do whatever she says, and... Doesn't that ever bother you?

Harrison

You know what I think about when I look at Olivia? My bookkeeping degree. That's what you do, right? When you spend eight years in federal prison? That's what I was facing... for insider trading. Eight years of my life wasted if she hadn't saved me. So, the way I see it, Liv's a good person. And if a good person has to do something bad for the right reasons, I'm down with that. So I don't want to know the how's. I don't want to know the why's. I just want to come to work every day thankful that I didn't have to earn a bookkeeping degree.

Huck

If I kill Hollis Doyle for you, you can't come back here. You can't work for Pope and Associates anymore. You can't be a gladiator.

Quinn

Why not?

Huck

Because you want Hollis dead for revenge and we don't do revenge. We solve problems. So you can be Lindsey Dwyer and get revenge on Hollis or you can be Quinn Perkins and move on with your life. You can't have your new life and also keep your old life. It doesn't work that way. So which is it?

Quinn

Does Huck...

Harrison

Stink? Yeah. To high heaven. Like he hasn't showered in days.

Abby

At least David will always know where he is.