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[DollEyes]

One of the many things that makes Homeland so special is the brilliant, Emmy-winning writing, in which even the simplest sentence can have a much deeper meaning. For example, when Brody is first rescued from captivity, his first words "I'm an American" were loaded with irony and subtext because he's a soldier who swore an oath to protect the United States from all of our enemies, only to be turned into one by Abu Nazir.

While much of the credit for the depth of that line belongs to fellow Emmy-winner Damian Lewis, the writers who come up with the dialogue deserve props as well, so here's the thread for the best Homeland quotes.

[Amester0120]

I guess I'll get the ball rolling with my two favorite Carrie quotes:

"Sit the fuck down I'm not finished!"

"Fuck this shit!"

She has such a way with words.

Edited by Amester0120, Oct 8, 2012 @ 7:08 PM.

[Hallelujah]

Love those, Amester.

I was watching some episodes today, and another brilliant Carrie line (about Pakistani intelligence):

"No, I don't trust those fuckers."

Half was just the line and other half was Danes' delivery, which is nearly always brilliant.

I also love this one:

"I wrote a 45-page manifesto declaring I’d reinvented music. The professor I handed it to escorted me to Student Health… I wasn’t even in his class."

[Floriane0007]

I loved: "Fuck a duck". A classic, but still...

[Amester0120]

Carrie: It reeks, you know.
Brody: My confusion?
Carrie: Your bullshit.

Quinn: So was it work or love?
Carrie: What are we girlfriends?

Carrie: You're a disgrace to your nation, Sergeant Nicholas Brody. You're a traitor and a terrorist. And now it's time you pay for that.

[Inquisitionist]

Brody: I liked you, Carrie.
Carrie: I loved you!

[Penny Robinson]

Peter Quinn: She's blowing it.

Saul: It's blown. Go ahead.

Peter Quinn: Take the goddamn room, goddamn it.

[ElectricBoogalo]

Quinn: Let [Brody] suck on that.

[Hallelujah]

Saul: Let her stay. She can help. She's forgotten more about Brody and Nazir than we'll ever know.

[Pallas429]

From "The Weekend"

White supremacist punk in dive: "I don't like people fucking with my head."
Carrie (as Brody comes with earshot): "Who likes people fucking with their heads?"

Brody: "I didn't have tea at Langley." The strangled, bereft voice in which he said it...

[ElectricBoogalo]

Carrie: Cease and fucking desist!

[mdem]

Not as good as the previous one, but still a good one:
"Like you've never seen a dick before." Peter Quinn to Carrie

[Penny Robinson]

"Like you've never seen a dick before." Peter Quinn to Carrie

I came here to post this. Hahahaha! I freakin adore Peter Quinn.

[Hallelujah]

Virgil: I think somebody just got in the car.
Carrie: Who?
Virgil: A humanoid shape. I told you I can't see shit out here.

[ElectricBoogalo]

Quinn: Where have you been? You look wasted.
Saul: I'm just old.

[Hallelujah]

Chris: Hey Dad, it's me, Chris!
Dana: He knows it's you, dorko.

[Amester0120]

Walden: Fuck your family!

That guy was a real charmer.

Brody: You still don't get it. I'm killing you.

[Hallelujah]

Dana: Turns out my dad is like a super spy, and terrorists want to kill him or some shit, I dunno...

All in the delivery, and this is exactly how a teenager would talk.

[Hallelujah]

Brody: Why would I do this?
Carrie: I can't see into your fucking soul, Brody.

Oy, what a line delivery by CD.

[ElectricBoogalo]

Quinn: I'm a guy who kills bad guys.

Quinn: The collateral damage would be to wreck a woman you've already wrecked once before.

Saul: Well, if it isn't Javert.

Edited by ElectricBoogalo, Dec 17, 2012 @ 9:13 AM.