Olivia Benson: 'What’s your name?' Suspect: 'Screw you!' Olivia Benson: 'Screw You, you’re under arrest for attempted rape until we nail you for the other eleven.'
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Olivia Benson
Olivia Margaret Benson is a fictional character on the NBC police procedural drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, portrayed by Mariska Hargitay. Benson holds the rank of Lieutenant and is the Commanding Officer of the Manhattan Special Victims Unit of the New York City Police Department, which operates out of the 16th precinct. For the first twelve seasons, she is partnered with Detective Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni). Following Stabler's departure, she is partnered with Nick Amaro (Danny Pino), but soon becomes sergeant and acting commanding officer in the wake of both Sergeant John Munch (Richard Belzer) and Captain Donald Cragen's (Dann Florek) retirement during the 15th season. During the 17th season, she is promoted to lieutenant and becomes the squad's official commanding officer. The character first appeared in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit pilot episode, "Payback", which aired September 20, 1999. Hargitay remains the only original cast member still present on the series. Benson has been credited in 403 episodes of SVU (411 in the franchise/universe), and as of the season 17 finale "Heartfelt Passages", she is currently the second–longest serving character in the Law & Order universe, behind SVU's Munch. She made her 400th credited appearance in the third episode of the eighteenth season of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, surpassing Donald Cragen as the character with the most credited appearances in the franchise. Hargitay's portrayal of Olivia Benson has received critical acclaim, and she has been the recipient of numerous awards and nominations, including an Emmy and a Golden Glob
Elliot Stabler: 'These pots and pans haven’t been used in so long they got cobwebs on them.' Olivia Benson: 'Kind of like the ones in my kitchen.'
Some things, you can put them behind you...but they do change you.
You think I'm a bitch, don't you? You're not the first.
You survived the abuse. You’re gonna survive the recovery.
His dirty laundry is cleaner than my entire wardrobe.
Healing begins when someone bears witness. I saw you. I believe you.
You’re a fighter. Look at everything you’ve overcome. Don’t give up now.
I trust my instincts. If I don’t have that, I shouldn’t be here.
I’ll never be over it, but I can live with it now and I have my life back now.
Last night, watching him in that window playing with that little boy, I wanted to be part of a family, so much. I’ve been alone my whole life.
Over half a million women are raped in this country every year, and only a fraction of them report it because they’re too ashamed. It’s a really screwed up world but it’s not your fault; and what happened to you, it doesn’t make you the monster.
We blame all kinds of people for creating monsters, why not ourselves?
The truth is everybody changes everyday and some things are more devastating than others. But we never are the same and there are two ways to deal with these changes, you either accept them or you fight them like hell all the way.