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Olivia Pope Quotes

Total quotes: 16
“It's a dirty little secret. And dirty little secrets always come out.”
— Olivia Pope, Scandal, Season 1: Dirty Little Secrets
Tagged: Secret, Dirty Little Secret, Hush, Reveal
“Olivia: Burying yourself in work isn't always the best thing when you lose someone.

Fitz: Running away isn't the best thing either.”
— Olivia Pope, Scandal, Season 4: Like Father, Like Daughter
Tagged: Work, Running Away, Loss, Distractions
“You don't want justice. You want anger. You want outrage. You want retribution.”
— Olivia Pope, Scandal, Season 4: The Lawn Chair
Tagged: Justice, Anger, Outrage, Retribution
“I smile at her and take off my clothes for you. I wait for you. I watch for you. My whole life is you. I can’t breathe because I’m waiting for you. You own me, you control me, I belong to you.”
— Olivia Pope, Scandal, Season 2: Happy Birthday, Mr. President
Tagged: Sex, affair, Life, breathe, belong, Control
“Mellie: Truth is, I was glad you were there. You were a good mistress. Probably a great one. You know what I mean?

Olivia: Well, I am an overachiever. Once I put my mind to something, I commit.”
— Olivia Pope, Scandal, Season 5: The Candidate
Tagged: Mistress, scandal, Overachiever, Commit
“All you can see is God and country and you're so busy being a patriot that you forget to be a person.”
— Olivia Pope, Scandal, Season 3: Ride, Sally, Ride
Tagged: Patriot, Person, Living, country, God
“This isn't how I want it to be, how either of us want it to be. This is what it is. Let's stop pretending. Let's just be here.”
— Olivia Pope, Scandal, Season 3: No Sun on the Horizon
Tagged: pretending, Reality, present, Expectations
“ It's me. I'm the thing that needs to be fixed. I'm the thing that needs to be handled. I'm the scandal. And the best way to deal with a scandal is to shut it down.”
— Olivia Pope, Scandal, Season 3: The Price of Free and Fair Elections
Tagged: scandal, Shut It Down, fixed, Handled, Problem
“You can do this job and keep your integrity. Just be honest. Be yourself.”
— Olivia Pope, Scandal, Season 4: It’s Good to Be Kink
Tagged: Job, Work, Integrity, honest, Be yourself
“I don't do lost causes or tilt at windmills. I don't perform miracles or do the impossible. I make cold calculations about difficult situations and I do not take on anything I know I won't win. And I will win this. I just need you to trust me. I promise you.”
— Olivia Pope, Scandal, Season 2: White Hat's Off
Tagged: Trust, Never Give Up, Winner, promises
“People want to like who they're voting for. People thought Al Gore was a big stiff until he stuck his tongue down Tipper's throat. They put George W. in office because he and Laura seemed like a fun couple to have a beer with. People have to want to invite you in for dinner.”
— Olivia Pope, Scandal, Season 1: The Trail
Tagged: vote, President, In Office, Likeability, Popular, Relatable
“ I'm working. I'm gladiating.”
— Olivia Pope, Scandal, Season 4: The Key
Tagged: Working, Gladiator, Catchphrase
“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.”
— Olivia Pope, Scandal, Season 1: Hell Hath No Fury
Tagged: Another Move, Never Give Up, Never Done, Work
“I want you. I want us. But I want to slow down. I want our business handled. I want our problems fixed. I want to be ready before the world is watching. Once we're in that spotlight, being picked at and scrubbed and stretched in every direction, we will never get the chance to make things right. If we are broken going in, we’re not getting out, not together. They will destroy us.”
— Olivia Pope, Scandal, Season 5: Heavy is the Head
Tagged: Relationships, Love, Business, Spotlight, pressure, Destroyed
“This is about you not living a lie. Not hiding. This is about you standing up and being who you are. That's honorable. That's brave. That's heroic. And that's who you are, Sully. You're a hero. You fought a war and you were braver than I can ever imagine being. This is just another war. For every gay person who ever wore a uniform. Be brave now.”
— Olivia Pope, Scandal, Season 1: Sweet Baby
Tagged: Brave, Truth, Standing Up, Honor, heroic deeds
“ 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 and 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.”
— Olivia Pope, Scandal, Season 2: Boom Goes the Dynamite
Tagged: frozen, Revenge, Life, wasted, stolen
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