12 of Lorelai Gilmore's Best Quotes
Sometimes an actor plays a role so memorably that it comes to define how we think of that person. Lauren Graham's portrayal of the fictional Lorelai Gilmore, from Gilmore Girls, is one such example. So in honor of Lauren Graham's birthday on March 16, here are some of our all-time favorite quips from everyone's most beloved TV mom. (Photos via Saeed Adyani/Netflix)
On going with the flow: "I can be flexible. As long as everything is exactly the way I want it, I'm totally flexible." (Photo via Saeed Adyani/Netflix)
On technology: "We like our Internet slow, okay? We can turn it on, walk around, dance, make a sandwich. With DSL, there's no dancing, no walking, and we'd starve. It'd be all work and no play." (Photo via Saeed Adyani/Netflix)
On fun and games: "I managed to find Uno and Checkers, and Battleship and most of the pieces of Candyland. Which I figure, we can mix together to create a fabulous new game, Candyship Battleland. War never tasted so good!" (Photo via Saeed Adyani/Netflix)
On coffee: "I stop drinking coffee, I stop doing the standing and the walking and the words-putting-into-sentence doing." (Photo via Saeed Adyani/Netflix)
On love: "I'm afraid once your heart is involved, it all comes out in moron." (Photo via Saeed Adyani/Netflix)
On coffee (again): "I need caffeine. Whatever form you've got, I haven't had any all day. I'll drink it, shoot it, eat it, snort it, whatever form it's in, gimme." (Photo via Saeed Adyani/Netflix)
On yet another cup of coffee: "If it was physically possible to make love to a hot beverage, this would be the one." (Photo via Saeed Adyani/Netflix)
On family: "My mother — she was here. I can feel it. Smell that? The room smells like guilt and Chanel No. 5." (Photo via Neil Jacobs/Netflix)
On priorities: "I'm going to go make out in the coat room. Don't eat my chicken." (Photo via Saeed Adyani/Netflix)
On a well-rounded diet: "I would like a cheeseburger, with a side of cheeseburger, and see if they can make me a cheeseburger smoothie." (Photo via Saeed Adyani/Netflix)
On parenting: "This is it. [Rory] 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." (Photo via Saeed Adyani/Netflix)
On bad decisions: "If you're gonna throw your life away, he'd better have a motorcycle." (Photo via Saeed Adyani/Netflix)
