Gilmore Girls Season 1 Episode 1: "Pilot" Quotes
Rory: So, do we go in or do we just stand here re-enacting The Little Match Girl?
Lorelai: Okay, look. I know you and me are having a thing here, and I know you hate me, but I need you to be civil, at least through dinner and then on the way home you can pull a Menendez. Deal?
Rory: Fine.
Emily: You took that girl and completely shut us out of your life.
Lorelai: You wanted to control me.
Emily: You were still a child.
Lorelai: I stopped being a child the minute the strip turned pink, okay? I had to figure out how to live. I found a good job.
Emily: As a maid. With all your brains and talent.
Lorelai: I worked my way up. I run the place now. I built a life on my own with no help from anyone.
Emily: Yes, and think of where you would have been if you'd accepted a little help, hmm? And where Rory would have been. But no, you were always too proud to accept anything from anyone.
Lorelai: Well, I wasn't too proud to come here to you two begging for money for my kid's school, was I?
Emily: No, you certainly weren't. But you're too proud to let her know where you got it from, aren't you? Well, fine, you have your precious pride and I have my weekly dinners. Isn't that nice? We both win.
Lorelai: Behold the healing powers of a bath. So, tell me about the guy.
Rory: You know what's really special about our relationship? The total understanding about the need for one's privacy. I mean, you really understand boundaries.
Lorelai: So tell me about the guy.
Rory: Mom!
Lorelai: Is he dreamy?
Rory: Oh, that's so Nick at Night.
Lorelai: Well, I'm gonna find out anyway.
Rory: Really? How?
Lorelai: I'll spy.
Lorelai: So tell me about the guy.
Rory: Check, please.
Lorelai: No, really, are you embarrassed to bring him home?
Rory: I'm not embarrassed.
Lorelai: Does he talk at all?
Rory: No, Mom, he's a mime.
Emily: Well, let's sit everyone. This is just wonderful. An education is the most important thing in the world, next to family.
Lorelai: And pie. (silence) Joke, joke.
Rory: When are you going to let your parents know that you listen to the evil rock music? You're an American teenager, for God's sake.
Lane: Rory, if my parents still get upset over the obscene portion size of American food, I seriously doubt I'm gonna make any inroads with Eminem.
(to Sookie about Rory) This is it. She can finally go to Harvard like she's always wanted, and get the education that I never got, and get to do all the things that I never got to do. And then I can resent her for it, and we can finally have a normal mother-daughter relationship.
Lorelai
Lorelai: Is something burning?
Sookie: My bangs earlier. Go on, go on, go on.
Emily: (about the man that Lorelai got pregnant with at 16) Your father would have gotten him a job with his insurance business, and you two would be living a lovely life right now.
Lorelai: Christopher didn't want to be in the insurance business, and I am living a lovely life right now.
Emily: Oh yeah, far away from us.
Lorelai: Oh, here we go again.
Emily: You took that girl and completely shut us out of your life!
Lorelai: You wanted to control me.
Emily: You were still a child!
Lorelai: No, I stopped being a child the minute the strip turned pink, okay? I had to figure out a way to live. I found a good job.
Emily: As a maid! With all your brains and talent!
Lorelai: I worked my way up. I run the place now!
Richard: And how are things at the motel?
Lorelai: The inn? They're great.
Emily: Lorelai's the executive manager now. Isn't that wonderful?
Richard: (about Rory's father, who is not in her life) Speaking of which, Christopher called yesterday.
Lorelai:: Speaking of which? How is that a speaking of which?
Joey: (To Lorelai) You do not look like a mother. (To Rory) And you do not look like a daughter.
Lorelai: That's possibly very sweet of you.
Joey: So ... daughter. points to counter You know I am travelling with a friend...
Lorelai: She's sixteen.
Joey: Bye.
Lorelai: Drive safe.
(Joey leaves quickly)
(Four girls pass nail polish around Rory, who writes in a notebook)
Girl #1: Maybe it's a love letter.
Girl #2: Or a diary.
Girl #3: I bet it's a Slam Book.
(Girl peeks over Rory's shoulder)
Girl #4: It's the assignment!