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Homeland

CIA officer Carrie Mathison is tops in her field despite being bipolar, which makes her volatile and unpredictable. With the help of her long-time mentor Saul Berenson, Carrie fearlessly risks everything, including her personal well-being and even sanity,

(41 total)

Seasons

Season 1 (13)Season 2 (21)Season 3 (7)Season 4 Season 5 Season 6 Season 7

Characters

Carrie Mathison (17)Claire Danes (17)Alex Gansa (13)Meredith Stiehm (13)Chip Johannessen (9)Saul Berenson (7)Mandy Patinkin (7)Howard Gordon (7)Henry Bromell (6)Alexander Cary (6)

“Carrie: Believe me, I wouldn't be going if I had a choice. Maggie: You do have a choice. You always have a choice.”

— Howard Gordon, Alex Gansa, Carrie Mathison, Claire Danes, imdb.com

Tagged: Choices, wouldn't be going, Always

“I have this feeling things are going to get pretty wild soon.”

— Meredith Stiehm, Chip Johannessen, Chris Brody, Jackson Pace, imdb.com

Tagged: Wild, Feeling, soon

“Somewhere down there, there's a tiny sliver of green just taking its time. This is how everything works. You wait. You lay low. And then you come to life.”

— Meredith Stiehm, Chip Johannessen, Carrie Mathison, Claire Danes, imdb.com

Tagged: tiny sliver, Green, Wait, Lay Low, Life

“We're not waterboarding. We'll be very polite and gentle. I just want to ask him some questions during his lunch hour.”

— Henry Bromell, Alex Gansa, Saul Berenson, Mandy Patinkin, imdb.com

Tagged: Waterboarding, polite, gentle, Questions

“Carrie: Guy hasn't broken the speed limit once. Galvez: Does that make him more, or less suspicious? Carrie: It makes him boring as shit.”

— Howard Gordon, Alex Gansa, Carrie Mathison, Claire Danes, imdb.com

Tagged: speed limit, suspicious, Boring

“Saul: It's been a very complicated day. Mira: Your life is a very complicated day.”

— Alexander Cary, Mira Berenson, Sarita Choudhury, imdb.com

Tagged: Complicated, Day, Life

“Saul: It was ten years ago. Everyone missed something that day. Carrie: Yeah, everyone's not me.”

— Howard Gordon, Gideon Raff, Alex Gansa, Carrie Mathison, Claire Danes, imdb.com

Tagged: Everyone, missed something, Intelligence, Individual

“Jessica: You punched a reporter. Brody: Oh, he'll live.”

— Alex Gansa, Jessica Brody, Morena Baccarin, imdb.com

Tagged: punched, Reporter, hit, Violence

“They want you to lose faith. Lose faith in your country, which they say is the devil. In your brother marines, who they say aren't coming for you because you have no military value. In your wife, who they say has got her arms wrapped around someone else.”

— Chip Johannessen, Jessica Brody, Morena Baccarin, imdb.com

Tagged: Faith, Country Music Lyrics, Devil's Advocate, Marines, military value

“I'm not the one who got it wrong. I'm the only one who got it right.”

— Meredith Stiehm, Alex Gansa, Carrie Mathison, Claire Danes, imdb.com

Tagged: Pride, Wrong, Right, bragging

“Really? With your pension plans and organic foods, your beach houses and sports clubs? Do you have the perseverance, the tenacity, the faith? Because we do. You can bomb us, starve us, occupy our holy places, but we will never lose our faith. We carry God in our hearts, our souls. To die is to join…”

— Henry Bromell, Abu Nazir, Navid Negahban, imdb.com

Tagged: Decadence, Terrorism, East v. West, Islam, Faith

“You know how crazy everyone says you are? You're crazier than that.”

— Chip Johannessen, Mira Berenson, Sarita Choudhury, imdb.com

Tagged: crazy

“It reeks, you know, your bullshit. Do I want to be friends with a demented ex-soldier who hates America, who decided that strapping on a bomb was what the answer to what ailed him, despite his daughter, his son, people who loved him in real life and not in the mind-fuck world of Abu Nazir? Who in th…”

— Meredith Stiehm, Carrie Mathison, Claire Danes, imdb.com

Tagged: Nuthouse, Friends

“Carrie, you are the smartest and the dumbest fucking person I've ever known!”

— Chip Johannessen, imdb.com

Tagged: insults, dumb, Smart

“I'm just old. You'll get there sooner than you think.”

— Alexander Cary, Saul Berenson, Mandy Patinkin, imdb.com

Tagged: Aging

“It's hard wanting something, or someone, that you just can't have.”

— Chip Johannessen, Carrie Mathison, Claire Danes, imdb.com

Tagged: Desire, Unrequited Love

“It's the lies that undo us. It's the lies we think we need to survive. When was the last time you told the truth?”

— Henry Bromell, Carrie Mathison, Claire Danes, imdb.com

Tagged: Truth, Lies, Survival

“You're a disgrace to your nation, Sargent Nicholas Brody. You're a traitor and a terrorist, and now it's time you pay for that.”

— Meredith Stiehm, Carrie Mathison, Claire Danes, imdb.com

Tagged: Terrorist, Traitor, punishment

“You don't know a goddamn thing. You're the smartest and the dumbest fucking person I've ever known.”

— Meredith Stiehm, Alex Gansa, Saul Berenson, Mandy Patinkin, imdb.com

Tagged: Smart, dumb

“I'm just saying, if he did to me what he did to you, got me fired and made me think I was crazy when I wasn't, sent me off to get my brain zapped, I'd fucking rip his skin off.”

— Meredith Stiehm, Peter Quinn, Rupert Friend, imdb.com

Tagged: Revenge, Violence