Masters of Sex (TV Series)

Love and Marriage (2013)

Allison Janney: Margaret Scully

Quotes 

• Margaret Scully : May I say something to you?

  Barton Scully : Margaret, the boy wants to go.

  Margaret Scully : No, I want Dale to hear this. I'm very fond of Dale, despite our very brief friendship. Stay single. I only say this to you because when you're young and in love, everyone thinks they'll be the exception. Sure, maybe mom and dad slept in separate beds, and then separate rooms. Maybe the older couples you know bicker or fight Maybe don't talk at all, if they ever did. But at your age, you can't imagine it will ever be you. But it will be. Which is bad enough, but what's even worse Is how much you'll feel like a failure Because when the person who knows you best loses interest, that really takes something out of you. Like surgery almost. And you really start to wonder If you'll ever be whole again. Anyway I'm babbling. Excuse me, gentlemen.

• Margaret Scully : Stay single. I only say this to you because when you're young and in love, everyone thinks they'll be the exception. Sure, maybe mom and dad slept in separate rooms. Maybe the older couples you know bicker or fight. Maybe they don't talk at all, if they ever did. But, at your age, you can't imagine it will ever be you. But, it will be... Which is bad enough, but what's even worse... is how much you'll feel like a failure... Because when the person who knows you best loses interest, that really takes something out of you. Like surgery, almost. And you really start to wonder... if you'll ever be whole again.

• Margaret Scully : Even if you never laid a hand on a hooker again, that wouldn't change what is so impossible to understand. This morning, when you came in my room, I was practically naked and you didn't look at my body once. Not once. And yet, your face was filled with such... love.

  Barton Scully : Because I love you. You know that.

  Margaret Scully : We didn't sleep together before we were married because you weren't interested in sleeping with me. And I excused it away by saying passion is for teenagers and nymphomaniacs. Passion is not what makes a good marriage. This is a perfect, beautiful man who loves me. Who doesn't care that I'm tall and athletic. Who doesn't... doesn't want me to act stupider than I am. This is a man who understands me.

  Barton Scully : And thirty years later, we're still the best of friends. How many people can say that?

  Margaret Scully : ...It's not enough.

• Margaret Scully : This marriage of ours is broken. And unless you want me to break along with it, you have to let me go.