Scandal (TV Series)

Boom Goes the Dynamite (2013)

Kerry Washington: Olivia Pope

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• [first lines] 

  Olivia Pope : [arriving at the restaurant]  I'm so sorry. This is not... I'm not a late person, and I don't want you to think our meeting isn't a priority.

  Jake Ballard : It's a date.

  Olivia Pope : What?

  Jake Ballard : 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.

  [picks up the wine glasses and stands up] 

  Jake Ballard : You look extraordinary, by the way. So let's go.

• Will Caldwell : [about his liaison]  Pete loves her. She's his wife. And she and I Well, we have what we have. It might not be much, but it's what we have.

  Olivia Pope : You have nothing. You have a pile of secrets and lies, and you're calling it love. And in the meantime, you're letting your whole life pass you by while they raise children and celebrate anniversaries and grow old together. You're frozen in time. You're holding your breath. You're a statue waiting for something that's never going to happen. Living for stolen moments in hotel hallways and coat closets, you keep telling yourself they all add up to something real, because in your mind they have to, but they don't. They won't. They never will. Because stolen moments aren't a life. So you have nothing. You have no one. End it now.

• Jake Ballard : [late night at the Jefferson Memorial]  Tell me this is not a fantastic spot for a date.

  Olivia Pope : It's not bad.

  Jake Ballard : You're hard to please. I like that. I like a challenge.

  Olivia Pope : What's "albatross?"

  Jake Ballard : I'm sorry. What?

  Olivia Pope : Wendy was working on something called albatross, and I'm guessing that since she reached out to you, that you know what it is.

  Jake Ballard : Wow, you really suck at dating.

• Olivia Pope : You can't be elected a gay Governor in a red state.

  Will Caldwell : Says who?

  Olivia Pope : You want me to be the first gay Governor of North Carolina?

  Will Caldwell : Yep.

  Olivia Pope : Well, that'll be difficult, Olivia, because I'm not gay.