Tyrant Season 3 Episode 1: "Spring" Quotes
I've been praying for this. But between you and me...it might have been easier...my brother...if you had died.
Barry [to Jamal]
I'm tired of apologizing for sometimes thinking I might be more than a wife and a mother.
Leila
But you know what's funny? That I should even have to answer that. Like it's some kind of a crime for a woman to think about herself.
Leila [to Ahmed]
Are you truly committed to democracy in Abuddin, whatever outcome it produces? Or will America be seen by the whole world as only having supported me?
Barry [to Lea Exley]
Ru'a: I'm just not sure about this turn the other cheek thing. Don't say anything to your dad. I mean, I'm still angry. I don't know. Can you pretend to forgive?
Sammy: You don't pretend. You force yourself until it becomes the truth.
I lived on the sidelines for twenty years, Bassam. Watching and nodding while other people made mistakes. I want to be Foreign Secretary, the first woman foreign secretary of an Arab nation.
Leila
I guess war makes unlikely heroes.
Barry
Rami: You shot a president.
Nusrat: I couldn't let him win. You understand that, right? Someone had to stop him. None of you could do it, so I had to do it for you.
Nusrat: Jamal. Is he...?
Rami: No one know if he'll live or die. Bassam is president now.
Nusrat: Well...at least I did some good.
You can't let them take their revenge out on me, Bassam. Or on my son. How is that going to make anything better? If we die?
Leila
