"Scandal" Molly, You in Danger, Girl (TV Episode 2013) - Bellamy Young as Mellie Grant

Mellie Grant : Marriage is, well, it's almost all pretend for everyone. That's the reality. That's what's real. Buying into the delusion that there's any other way to live together, to get through an entire life together... That's, well, that's the fantasy. That's pretending.

President Fitzgerald Grant : Did I do this to you? Or have you always been like this? Because if it was me I'm sorry.
Cyrus Beene : [standing plaintiffly] I could tread carefully here and parse my words, but instead, let's just be modern. It's faster. In this interview, Rose is going to want to see a happy couple, a warm couple, a connected couple, two people in love. They don't want you They don't want this.

[indicating their vacant stares]

Cyrus Beene : This is "Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?"This is "MacBeth."They want the fairy tale. We know what they want. I know you know, but that's not the same as being able to deliver. Can you give good fairy tale?

President Fitzgerald Grant : [getting up] Cyrus, we've been doing this circus act for 20 years. We'll be fine.

Mellie Grant : [getting up] We'll be fine. We've had enough practice. We can't all be you and James, Cyrus. We can't all have a perfect marriage.

Bellamy Young: Mellie Grant