The Residence Quotes

What are you doing in here?[Cordelia Cupp]Just looking around.[Harry Hollinger]This is a crime scene.[Cordelia Cupp]It’s an office.[Harry Hollinger]We’re in Washington. Same thing.[Cordelia Cupp]

How do you define sex?[David Rylance]I define it as a thing I enjoy more than talking about real estate and less than looking at birds.[Cordelia Cupp]

Don’t pick up your binoculars until you know what you’re looking at.

It doesn’t have to be this way between you and me.[Edwin Park]How would you like it to be?[Cordelia Cupp]More respectful.[Edwin Park]You want me to respect you? For what? I don’t know you.[Cordelia Cupp]I don’t know you either, but I respect you.[Edwin Park]That’s different.[Cordelia Cupp]Why?[Edwin Park]Because I’m Cordelia Cupp.[Cordelia Cupp]

You know the amazing thing about birds? Birds have the ability to focus. It’s not that they’re just good at hunting for food. They literally filter out things that are not food.

You can’t be betrayed by someone who was never on your side.

You always have to be suspicious of the person who calls the meeting.

Where’s the one place nobody ever looks? The room with the books. Nobody cares about the room with the books.

Whenever you’re watching something, something or someone is probably watching you.

That’s how you do things. You don’t interrupt. You wait.

Rich people steal money. All the time. In some cases it’s even why they’re rich.[to Lilly]

I didn’t kill him.[Kim Abkin]Whatever you say.[Cordelia Cupp]Yeah. It’s honestly very sad. I worked with the man for eight years.[Kim Abkin]I’ve worked with people for eight years who I’ve wanted to kill.[Cordelia Cupp]