Georgia: Ally, what makes your problems so much bigger than everybody else’s?
Ally: They’re mine.
Category: Ally McBeal
Ally McBeal is an American legal comedy-drama television series, originally aired on Fox from September 8, 1997 to May 20, 2002. Created by David E.Kelley, who also served as the executive producer, along with Bill D'Elia. The series stars Calista Flockhart in the title role as a young lawyer working in the fictional Boston law firm Cage and Fish, with other young lawyers whose lives and loves were eccentric, humorous and dramatic.
Richard: It’s not my style to care about others, but, what’s going on?
Richard: Problem is just a bleak word for a challenge.
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I like being a mess. It’s who I am.
Ally: I like being a mess. It’s who I am.
Richard: Secrets are no good when you can’t repeat them. Fishism.
Ally: We’re women. We have a double standard to live up to.
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Ally, one of the keys to life
Richard: Ally, one of the keys to life: the fast forward. Every movie has its lousy parts. The trick is to fast forward through them. As time passes, you look back and say oh, that little adultery thing, oh that. You fast forward to then right now, and you’re over it.
Richard: I couldn’t help but overhear, probably because I was eavesdropping.
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Love is an equation
Richard: Love is an equation: a me and a you derives a we.
Claire Otoms: The funny thing I find about love is that it’s the one game you lose without even playing it.
Ally: There’s no sin in loving men. Only pain!
Ally: So how has it come to this? We’re smart women, we’re fairly attractive.
Renee: I’m even hot.
Ally: Sometimes I’m tempted to become a street person, cut off from society. But then I wouldn’t get to wear my outfits.
Richard: We miss you with every opportunity, Elaine. Kidding. Bygones. Go away.
Elaine: Men love to be thought of as funny… except when they’re in bed.
Ally: We’re not only wired to want what we can’t have, but we’re also wired to want what we really don’t want.
John Cage: The world is no longer a romantic place. Some of its people still are however, and therein lies the promise. Don’t let the world win.
Billy: Whatever the virtues of balance, it’s just a pleasant form of insanity.
Richard: If you don’t kiss a girl on the first date, you’re a gentleman. If you don’t kiss her on the second date, you’re gay!
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Parenting is nothing if not selfless.
Richard: Parenting is nothing if not selfless.
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You only die once!
Ally: You only die once!
Richard Fish: Everybody’s alone. It’s just easier to take in a relationship.
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I think my testimony swayed them.
Elaine: I think my testimony swayed them.
Richard: I agree, but we won anyway.
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Friction, friction, orgasm. Fishism.
Richard: Friction, friction, orgasm. Fishism.
Richard: Verbal spankings leave me wanting for more.