Season

Season 1

by Johnny Lewis, Katey Sagal, Ron Perlman, Kim Coates, Maggie Siff and 6 others

Led by Clay Morrow (Ron Perlman), the outlaw motorcycle club Sons of Anarchy exerts a Mafia-like hold over the small Northern Californian town of Charming.

(19 total)

Characters

Kurt Sutter (10)John Teller (6)Nicholas Guest (6)Katey Sagal (4)Jax Teller (4)Gemma Teller Morrow (4)Nichole Beattie (4)Charlie Hunnam (4)Brett Conrad (2)Ally Walker (1)

“I'm more scared now than I ever was. I'm scared of getting caught. I'm scared of not getting caught.”

— Kurt Sutter, Tara Knowles, Maggie Siff, imdb.com

Tagged: Fear, Capture

“You wanna know how many women I've slept with over the last 10 years?…Hundreds! Maybe more, I don't know. I barely see their faces. I married Wendy because I was lonely. Because I got tired of the endless disconnect. It was just a sad time-out. Because when I'm inside someone, there's only one face…”

— Kurt Sutter, Jax Teller, Charlie Hunnam, imdb.com

Tagged: Manwhore, Promiscuity, Disconnection, Chicago, Loneliness

“I'm protecting the innocent. If I step on a few toes in the meanwhile, so be it.”

— Kurt Sutter, Gemma Teller Morrow, Katey Sagal, imdb.com

Tagged: Protectiveness, Innocence

“Stahl: Donna, what kind of mother are you going to be? Donna: The kind who doesn't bail on her family.”

— Dave Erickson, Kurt Sutter, Agent June Stahl, Ally Walker, imdb.com

Tagged: Motherhood, Absentee Moms

“It's all a little absurd, I guess. Truth is I know I'm going to hell. Prayer just makes my time here a little less miserable. A few good acts of contrition can make you feel good too, love.”

— Pat Charles, Cameron Hayes, Jamie McShane, imdb.com

Tagged: prayer, Acts of Contrition, Miserable, Hell, Absurd

“You so much as flash a pretty grin at him—I will jam my fist so far up your bony ass, your cup size will double.”

— Nichole Beattie, Gemma Teller Morrow, Katey Sagal, imdb.com

Tagged: Threats, Fisting

“I've been waking up every day since he was born with a sick feeling. Wondering who was gonna die today. And it scares the shit out of me. And then I woke up this morning, and it was gone. I think that scares me more.”

— Brett Conrad, Jax Teller, Charlie Hunnam, imdb.com

Tagged: Fear, Anxiety, Apprehension, Sick Feeling, Anticlimactic

“I never made a conscious decision to have the club become one thing or another. It just happened before my eyes. Each savage event was a catalyst for the next. And by the time the violence reached epic proportion, I couldn't see it. Blood was every color.”

— Brett Conrad, John Teller, Nicholas Guest, imdb.com

Tagged: Violence, Escalation, Blood

“Einstein said that any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. But it takes a touch of genius and lots of courage to move something in the opposite direction. I'm realizing that my touch of genius and my courage are coming too little, too late.”

— Nichole Beattie, John Teller, Nicholas Guest, imdb.com

Tagged: Albert Einstein, Violence, Complexity, Genius, Courage

“I'm gonna dunk my balls in your mouth. You're gonna gag. I'm gonna laugh. We'll be best friends forever.”

— James D. Parriott, Alex "Tig" Trager, Kim Coates, imdb.com

Tagged: balls, Gross, BFF

“Inside the club, there had to be truth. Our word was our honor. But outside, it was all about deception. Lies were our defense, our default. To survive, you had to master the art of perjury. The lie and the truth had to feel the same. But once you learned that skill, nobody knows the truth in or out…”

— Nichole Beattie, John Teller, Nicholas Guest, imdb.com

Tagged: Truth, Honor, Deception, Lies, Perjury

“The older I get, the more I realize that age doesn't bring wisdom. It only brings weary. I'm not any smarter than I was 30 years ago. I've just grown too tired to juggle the lies and hide the fears. Self-awareness doesn't reveal my indiscretions; exhaustion does.”

— Nichole Beattie, John Teller, Nicholas Guest, imdb.com

Tagged: Wisdom, Age, Self-awareness, Exhaustion

“Gemma: I love you. Clay: That love's gonna kill me.”

— Jack LoGiudice, Gemma Teller Morrow, Katey Sagal, imdb.com

Tagged: Bad Love

“When we take action to avenge the ones we love personal justice collides with social and divine justice. We become judge, jury, and God. With that choice comes daunting responsibility. Some men cave under that weight. Others abuse the momentum. The true outlaw finds the balance between the passion i…”

— Kurt Sutter, John Teller, Nicholas Guest, imdb.com

Tagged: Justice, Revenge, Love, God, Responsibility

“Dear God, thank you for saving this boy...from his murderous junkie mom, who cared more about a $40 rush than she did her own flesh and blood.”

— Kurt Sutter, Gemma Teller Morrow, Katey Sagal, imdb.com

Tagged: Prayers, Dysfunctional Families, Addicts

“Anger clouds judgment and it makes us do things that we end up regretting—things we can never take back.”

— Kurt Sutter, David Hale, Taylor Sheridan, imdb.com

Tagged: Anger, Judgment, Regret

“Most of us were not violent by nature. We all had our problems with authority, but none of us were sociopaths. We came to realize that when you move your life off the social grid you give up the safety that society provides. On the fringe, blood and bullets are the rule of law and if you're a man wi…”

— Kurt Sutter, John Teller, Nicholas Guest, imdb.com

Tagged: Violence, Socoiopaths, Anarchy, Blood, bullets

“Some days you're the Beamer, some days you're the goddamn deer.”

— Kurt Sutter, Jax Teller, Charlie Hunnam, imdb.com

Tagged: BMW, Deer in the Headlights, winners, losers

“It ain't easy being king.”

— Kurt Sutter, Jax Teller, Charlie Hunnam, imdb.com

Tagged: Humblebragging, king