Season

Season 1

by Young Il Kim, Bobby "Axe" Axelrod, Damian Lewis, James Foley, James Hetfield and 72 others

What happens when two voracious power players at the top of their fields go head to head? Brilliant hedge fund titan Bobby "Axe" Axelrod and brash U.S. District Attorney Chuck Rhoades play a dangerous, winner-take-all game of cat and mouse where the stake

(28 total)

Characters

David Levien (14)Brian Koppelman (14)Paul Giamatti (13)Chuck Rhoades (13)Andrew Ross Sorkin (9)Damian Lewis (8)Bobby "Axe" Axelrod (8)Heidi Schreck (5)Willie Reale (5)Wes Jones (3)

“A normal person wouldn’t engage in the behavior. A sociopath wouldn’t give a shit. You’re somewhere in between.”

— Wes Jones, Wendy Rhoades, Maggie Siff, imdb.com

Tagged: sociopaths

“You need me, because I am willing to stare into the abyss beyond conventional morality and do what needs to be done.”

— Brian Koppelman, David Levien, Chuck Rhoades, Paul Giamatti, imdb.com

Tagged: Will Do Anything, Screw Ethics

“If you’re successful enough, people think you can do anything, and then you start to believe it, too. It’s hard not to engage in a little magical thinking when everyone else is looking at you like you’re some combination of Warren Buffet and God above.”

— Wes Jones, Wendy Rhoades, Maggie Siff, imdb.com

Tagged: Magical thinking, Arrogance, Thinking You're A God, Dangers of Success

“Only people with money forget about money.”

— Heidi Schreck, Bryan Connerty, Toby Leonard Moore, imdb.com

Tagged: How The Rich Live, Luxury of Not Thinking About Money, Being Rich

“We will retreat so we can attack when it is to our advantage.”

— Willie Reale, Chuck Rhoades, Paul Giamatti, imdb.com

Tagged: Patience, strategy, Planning Ahead

“No one quits while they’re ahead. This isn’t France. It’s America.”

— Heidi Schreck, Chuck Rhoades, Paul Giamatti, imdb.com

Tagged: Quitting, America vs. France

“Saddle up! Body sushi at the strip joint, on me.”

— Heidi Schreck, Mike "Wags" Wagner, David Costabile, imdb.com

Tagged: party, Drinking, Team Building With Finance Money

“Guarantee is a word that amateurs use in politics.”

— Heidi Schreck, Wes Jones, Chuck Rhoades, Paul Giamatti, imdb.com

Tagged: Politics, lying

“The douchebag apple doesn't fall far from the douchebag tree.”

— Peter Blake, Chuck Rhoades, Paul Giamatti, imdb.com

Tagged: douchebag, Like Father Like Son

“Come bonus time, I am gonna show you enough love, you could start a third family!”

— Willie Reale, Bobby "Axe" Axelrod, Damian Lewis, imdb.com

Tagged: Money, Bonuses, Making A lot of Money

“Come bonus time, I am gonna show you enough love, you could start a third family!”

— Willie Reale, Bobby "Axe" Axelrod, Damian Lewis, imdb.com

Tagged: Bonuses, Love

“Maybe generations from now, they’ll tell stories about you, like they do Jesse James or Billy the Kid. The myth is so fucking romantic.”

— Brian Koppelman, David Levien, Chuck Rhoades, Paul Giamatti, imdb.com

Tagged: Billy the Kid, Myth, jesse james, Romantic

“What we do has consequences, intended or unintended. The decisions we make, The actions we bring—have weight.”

— Andrew Ross Sorkin, Brian Koppelman, David Levien, Chuck Rhoades, Paul Giamatti, imdb.com

Tagged: Decisions, actions, Consequences

“You're just listening to the wrong voice. You're tuned in to the one yelling at you over the loudspeaker that you're fucking stupid, and you're ignoring the quiet one, inside, telling you where the alpha is. Now, that's the voice that got you here.”

— Andrew Ross Sorkin, Brian Koppelman, David Levien, Wendy Rhoades, Maggie Siff, imdb.com

Tagged: Inner Voice, Alpha, Stupid

“They may be cheering now, but believe me, they are dying to boo.”

— Andrew Ross Sorkin, Brian Koppelman, David Levien, Chuck Rhoades, Paul Giamatti, imdb.com

Tagged: crowds, Waiting for You To Fail

“You wouldn't know the right thing to do if it kneeled down and sucked your tiny goddamn cock!”

— Andrew Ross Sorkin, Brian Koppelman, David Levien, Chuck Rhoades, Paul Giamatti, imdb.com

Tagged: insults

“When I pull a deal off the table, I leave Nagasaki behind.”

— Brian Koppelman, David Levien, Bobby "Axe" Axelrod, Damian Lewis, imdb.com

Tagged: Dealmaking, Nagasaki

“When I walk out that door today, we are friends for life or you don’t exist to me ever again.”

— Brian Koppelman, David Levien, Bobby "Axe" Axelrod, Damian Lewis, imdb.com

Tagged: Friends, Ultimatums

“What is it about a woman taking it into her mouth after a little raw-dogging that just seems so right? And it’s just this: that I’m accepted for who I am.”

— Willie Reale, Chuck Rhoades, Paul Giamatti, imdb.com

Tagged: Ass-to-Mouth, Raw-Dogging, dirty

“You see an opportunity like that again, you grab it like it's a horse cock and you're Catherine the Great.”

— Willie Reale, Mike "Wags" Wagner, David Costabile, imdb.com

Tagged: Opportunity, Horse Cock, Catherine the Great