Scandal (TV Series)

Hunting Season (2012)

Tony Goldwyn: Fitzgerald Grant

Quotes 

• Cyrus Beene : You're ticking, sir.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : What?

  Cyrus Beene : You're ticking. You know how I know you're ticking? Up until you saw this picture, you've been happy. Lately, you've been happy. Don't get me wrong, I've enjoyed it, not because of the happiness, but because It's been weird, like seeing a grandma in a bikini, or a democrat with a Bible. You're happy, but we both know that happy people are rarely actually happy, unless they're morons. You are a brilliant man, a Rhodes Scholar, and a PhD, which means you're acting happy, because she won't take your calls, and you won't admit that it bothers you. And God knows what else that goes on with the Shakespearean drama that is the women in your life. You're ticking, sir. You're a bomb stuffed in a Teddy bear, waiting to explode. Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : Stop it.

  Cyrus Beene : How do I defuse the bomb, sir?

• Mellie Grant : I need to make some plans for my political future. And I do have a bright, bright political future. The sweet lawyer who gave up her career for her husband, suffered a miscarriage, then had a late-in-life baby while first lady. That's gold. That's a future President. That's a hell of a second act, and America loves a second act.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : Mellie...

  Mellie Grant : Get over her.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : Mellie...

  Mellie Grant : Get over her!

  [sighs] 

  Mellie Grant : You see her again, I'll blow you away. And I'm an excellent shot.