Zoey Quotes in The Dictator (2012)

General Aladeen: You seem educated.

Zoey: Yes, I went to Amherst.

General Aladeen: I love it when women go to school. It's like seeing a monkey on rollerskates. It means nothing to them, but it's so adorable for us.

[last lines]

General Aladeen: Are you okay, my love? What did you step on?

Zoey: Oh, yes! No, no. It's my people's tradition. We always smash a glass at weddings. I'm Jewish!

General Aladeen: What?

Zoey: Mazel tov! Are you okay?

General Aladeen: That's fine. I don't mind. It's great! Come here, my love.

[hugs her while signaling for her to be executed]

Zoey: The police here are such fascists!

General Aladeen: Yeah right, and not in a good way.

Zoey: [yelling at the police] Is it a crime to be proud of your job?

General Aladeen: Actually in Wadiya it's a capital offense.

Zoey: This is my store. This is a free earth collective. We are a vegan, feminist, non-profit cooperative operating within an anti-racist, anti-oppressive framework for people of all or no genders.

Zoey: [after finding out Allison Burgers is General Aladeen] Oh my god! You lied to me... and you're wanted for war crimes!

General Aladeen: Please. That stuff never sticks.

Zoey: [yelling at the police after Aladeen is arrested] And I know this because I majored in Fem Lit!

Hunt: You know New York? I've never been to your city.

Zoey: What? You live an hour out and you've never been to Manhattan?

Hunt: No, I'm from the Island. We don't go to the city - crazy people out there with guns.

Zoey: That is not true!

Hunt: Well I'd like to believe you, but you're one of the crazies.

Zoey: Danny, maybe we need to reevaluate things.

Danny: Reevaluate? You mean, as in, don't eat my ravioli, or reevaluate as Stalin might have used the word?

Zoey: Hey everyone. My husband is going to do God now. He just met him. He's doing God.

[first lines]

Tessa Scott: Moments. This is one. This right here, right now, is definitely a moment.

Zoey: Tessa?

Tessa Scott: Anything could happen next.