Big Love Quotes

Nicki: [about Barb] Do you think she's happy for me? About the baby?
Margie: Of course. She loves babies. Sometimes I think she wishes my boys were hers.
Nicki: Sometimes I think they wish the same thing.

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Barb: [about sneaking sex] We can't keep doing what we're doing.
Bill: But I need you.
Barb: You have me.

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Barb: Who's that?
Bill: Just Nicki.
Barb: Oh. What'd she want?
Bill: No, nothing. [pause] She's ovulating.

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Bill: I promise you, you will not have the baby in this motel.
Wanda: Oh, I could give birth in a potato patch, I'd survive. It's Joey I'm worried about.

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Heather: You know, I really have some strong opinions about polygamy and I would love to sit down and talk to you about it one day.
[Sarah looks down, embarrassed.]
Barb: Wuhh... We should do that sometime.

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Wanda: [to Barb, about Frank] I wouldn't let him in your house if I were you. He makes Joey crazy, Bill hates him, and he doesn't pee in the toilet.
Nicki: Bill's not very good about lifting the seat either.
Wanda: No, Nicki. He pees in the sink.

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Frank: [to Bill, about Lois] What are you being over-protective of her for? She's like one of Roman's Humvees, you know. The woman is a tank!

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Frank: [to Joey] I'll have some beans there, Fumbles.
Wanda: I told you, old man, you lay off Joey or else.
Frank: Or else what?
Wanda: Or else I'll finish the job someone else started: I'll kill you!

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Nicki: I love you, Bill.
Bill: I love you, too.
Nicki: How much?
Bill: I say it's astronomical, beyond all measure.
Nicki: I have $58,000 in debt.

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Margie: Benny, do you remember a few years ago, a vote about me?
Ben: Which one?
Margie: The one about me joining the family.
Ben: Which one?

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Sarah: [to Bill] It hurts to see you lie, Dad. I hate that about this life. Watching you and Mom hide, all of us having to hide.

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Margie: I am a terrible wife. I should've never married your father. And your mother.
Sarah: And Nicki.
Margie: Especially Nicki.

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Nicki: Margene, you're grounded.
Margie: Excuse me?
Nicki: Or you're on probation. You do not involve our kids in your filthy habits.
Margie: No, no way. You have no authority over me.
Nicki: Authority? Wait just one minute. I'm second, you're third, get it?
Margie: Second's not first. It's nothing.

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Cindy: Polygamy one hundred years ago was quaint; polygamy today is foul.

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Ernest Holloway: [about the UEB Council] They also talked about negotiating a contract with NASA to sell clay from one of the mines we own in Moab for the heat shields on the shuttle.
Bill: They don't believe we even went to the moon and yet they're in business with the agency that didn't go there.

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Barb: I do not want the kids to go to the compound!
Nicki: All the kids or just your kids?
Barb: Any kids and certainly not mine. And mine include yours!

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Governor's Aide: Your charity work was important, to be sure, but truthfully it was your cancer that sealed the deal. The first lady is trying to shine a light on survivorship this year. You and your fellow finalists are all survivors.
Barb: So many people are.
Governor's Aide: True, but most are merely tumors. Luckily for you, yours had metastasized.

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Adaleen: [to Rhonda] The competition is over. Of course I found out. What kind of sister-wife do you take me for? Get in. Your little Roman holiday is over.

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[Nicki sneaks in on Barb and Margene talking; they don't hear her.]
Barb: Has she said anything to you about what she's wearing?
Margie: Nuh-uh.
Barb: Just try to get her to wear something a little more...I mean, she sticks out like a sore thumb.
Margie: Oh...
Barb: I don't want to hurt her feelings, but it's like walking into the Governor's mansion with a sign that says "Practicing Polygamist." She'll never listen to it coming from me, she'll think I'm attacking her. I mean, even just offer to do her hair.

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[Talking about the Mother of the Year event.]
Rhonda: Why did they pick Barb? Is she more important than you two?
Margie: Uh, no.
Rhonda: Well, was there something lacking in you two?
Nicki: Only one person can be mother of the year. Teenie nominated Barb, so that's how it happened. Here.
[She hands Rhonda a sandwich.]
Rhonda: What is it?
Nicki: Breakfast. To go.
[Rhonda turns to walk away, then turns back to Nicki.]
Rhonda: You're irritable, Nicki. Try to find time for a nap this afternoon.

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Sarah: [to Barb, about polygamy] I don't think anybody knows, Mom, and not everybody cares.

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Nicki: I didn't marry for love. I married for the principle.
Barb: I didn't. I tried. I don't know if I have a testimony for the principle. But I love you, I love our family more and more.
Nicki: That frightens me. I don't know that a marriage based on love can go the distance. The secret holiness of the institution. The sanctity of marriage. Without it, it's just random couplings, with no purpose or stick-to-it-iveness. How will we survive the bad times on just love?

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Nicki: [to Margie] Poor Joey and Wanda. They're all they've got. No other spouses to lean on. How are they going to make it through this crisis with only each other?

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Adaleen: [to 10-year-old girl] OK, here's how it goes; it's complicated, so try to follow along. I'm 32nd of 56 children, and when I married Roman I became my own step-grandma, because my father married Roman's daughter, Baylene. [conversation continues off screen] So, little Josie, that makes you my step-grandma, and I'm your stepmom. And when I had Alby he became my great-uncle and I became his great-great-grandmother. Which of course makes me my own grandmother.

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Bill: You're my wife, Margene. You can't be seeing the girl I'm dating.

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Margie: Nicki doesn't have a mom anymore, so she's trying to steal mine.

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Margie: Nicki, can I tell you a secret?
Nicki: If you must.

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Wayne: He was really scary, Mom!
Nicki: All Baptists are, honey.

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