Cookie: You want Cookie's nookie, ditch the bitch.
Lucious: I'll do it. I'll ditch her.
Cookie: Promise me?
Lucious: I promise I'll get rid of her.

You still got it, old head.

Cookie [to Lucious]

Cookie: This was always a good song.
Lucious: You know it was about you.
Cookie: You always did it for me.
Lucious: You never stopped doing it for me.

Ya'll done been through a lot. But ya'll gonna get through this, whatever happens. Right now I need ya'll to be strong.

Lucious

Lucious: I'm sick.
Jamal: Wait, what do you mean?
Lucious: I have ALS.

I am sorry that you're not happy. Eventually you're gonna meet somebody who really understands what it's like to be with an artist. It's hard.

Lucious [to Jamal]

Jamal gonna be a daddy? Who would have thunk!

Hakeem

Hakeem, listen to your mother. Very wise woman.

Lucious

She wanted to meet her daddy.

Olivia [to Jamal]

Cookie: I really hope that when you become a star, you can finally let go of all this childish anger.
Hakeem: Become? I'm already a star, Cookie.

I'm not playing, Elle. Take it off. You need to sing about your pain. That's the real you or it ain't never gonna work. Take it off.

Cookie

Cookie: It's amazing what good music will have these young girls doing nowadays.
Porsha: What? Touching on each other? That's nasty.
Cookie: Porsha! Shut your ass up.

Empire Quotes

That boy is headed for a world of trouble.

Lucious

Becky: Yeah, just Tiana can open and then throw it to Devon.
Giselle: Yeah, that works.
Becky: Also, I know we're in crisis right now, but I just want to be honest with you about something.
Giselle: Go ahead.
Becky: OK, so Def Jam offered me a job.
Giselle: Ew.
Becky: And unless the Empire fans come back, I'm gonna be forced to take it.
Giselle: And walk away from all this Black Girl Magic?