Mad Men Quotes
Stephanie: But nobody knows what’s wrong themselves, I mean, everyone else can see it right away.
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Anna Draper: I started thinking of everything I was sure was true, and how flimsy it all might be.
Don Draper: You don’t have to see a UFO to know that. But it’s not a great way to think about things.
Anna Draper: I know everything about you and I still love you.
Don Draper: You don’t have to see a UFO to know that. But it’s not a great way to think about things.
Anna Draper: I know everything about you and I still love you.
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Peggy Olson: I mean, I know what I'm supposed to want, but it just never feels right, or as important as anything in that office.
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Don Draper: Do you ever think about it?
Peggy Olson: I try not to, but then it comes up out of nowhere. [She pauses] Playgrounds.
Peggy Olson: I try not to, but then it comes up out of nowhere. [She pauses] Playgrounds.
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Don Draper: I’ve got this sick feeling in the pit of my stomach.
Dr. Faye Miller: Listen, maybe it’s not all about work. Maybe that sick feeling might go away if you’d take your head out of the sand about the past.
Don: You know it’s not that simple.
Faye: Of course it isn’t. And you don’t have to do it alone, but if you resolve some of that, you might be more comfortable with everything.
Don: And then what happens?
Faye: Then you’re stuck trying to be a person like the rest of us.
Dr. Faye Miller: Listen, maybe it’s not all about work. Maybe that sick feeling might go away if you’d take your head out of the sand about the past.
Don: You know it’s not that simple.
Faye: Of course it isn’t. And you don’t have to do it alone, but if you resolve some of that, you might be more comfortable with everything.
Don: And then what happens?
Faye: Then you’re stuck trying to be a person like the rest of us.
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Don Draper: The reason you haven't felt it is because it doesn't exist. What you call love was invented by guys like me to sell nylons. You're born alone and you die alone and this world just drops a bunch of rules on top of you to make you forget those facts. But I never forget. I'm living like there's no tomorrow, because there isn't one.
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Don Draper: Advertising is based on one thing, happiness. And you know what happiness is? Happiness is the smell of a new car. It's freedom from fear. It's a billboard on the side of the road that screams reassurance that whatever you are doing is okay. You are okay.
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Joan Holloway: He may act like he wants a secretary, but most of the time they're looking for something between a mother and a waitress. And the rest of the time, well... Go home, take a paper bag and cut some eye holes out of it. Put if over your head, look in the mirror and try and evaluate your strengths and weaknesses. And try and be honest.
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Joan Holloway: A girl like you with those ankles? I'd find a way to make them sing.
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Don Draper: We should get married.
Midge Daniels: You think I'd make a good ex-wife?
Midge Daniels: You think I'd make a good ex-wife?
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Pete Campbell: Of course I love you. I’m giving up my life to be with you, aren’t I?
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Don Draper(about Pete): Can you go out there and entertain him?
Peggy Olson: I know it’s my first day, and I don’t want to seem uncooperative, but, do I have to?
Don: I see your point.
Peggy Olson: I know it’s my first day, and I don’t want to seem uncooperative, but, do I have to?
Don: I see your point.
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(The guys have taken Ken’s shirt off when Bert Cooper walks in.)
Don Draper: Brassiere account. Just figured out we can’t sell them to men.
Don Draper: Brassiere account. Just figured out we can’t sell them to men.
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Don Draper: Let me ask you something, what do women want?
Roger Sterling: Who cares?
Roger Sterling: Who cares?
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Betty Draper: I don’t know why I’m here. I mean, I do, I’m nervous, I guess. Anxious. I don’t sleep that well. And my hands. They’re fine now, it’s like when you have a problem with your car and you go to a mechanic and it’s not doing it anymore. Not that you’re a mechanic. I guess a lot of people must come here worried about the bomb. Is that true? It’s a common nightmare, people say. I read it in a magazine. My mother always told me that it wasn’t polite to talk about yourself. She passed away recently. I guess I already said that.
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Roger Sterling: You know what? I am very comfortable with my mind. Thoughts clean and unclean, loving and… the opposite of that. But I am not a woman. And I think it behooves any man to toss all female troubles into the hands of a stranger.
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Don Draper: I see to remember a woman wasting a good piece of a beautiful afternoon reciting this diatribe against television that should have ended with her banging her shoe on the table.
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Paul Kinsey: Sterling Coo is positively Cro-Magnon. I have a friend”I’m not even going to say what agency”but all they do is smoke Mary Jane and play darts. And honestly, I think they’re the best store on the street.
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Rachel Menken: It's hard to get caught in a lie.
Don Draper: It wasn't a lie, it was ineptitude with insufficient cover.
Don Draper: It wasn't a lie, it was ineptitude with insufficient cover.
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Roger Sterling: I bet there were people in the Bible walking around, complaining about "kids today."
Don Draper: Kids today, they have no one to look up to. 'Cause they're looking up to us.
Don Draper: Kids today, they have no one to look up to. 'Cause they're looking up to us.
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Pete Campbell: I have ideas.
Don Draper: I'm sure you do. Sterling Cooper has more failed artists and intellectuals than the Third Reich.
Don Draper: I'm sure you do. Sterling Cooper has more failed artists and intellectuals than the Third Reich.
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Roger Sterling: I bet daily friendship with that bottle attracts more people to advertising than any salary you can dream of.
Don Draper: It's the way I got in.
Roger Sterling: So enjoy it.
Don Draper: I'm doin' my best here.
Roger Sterling: No, you're not. You don't know how to drink. Your whole generation, you drink for the wrong reasons. My generation, we drink because it's good, because it feels better than unbuttoning your collar, because we deserve it. We drink because it's what men do.
Don Draper: What about shaky hands, I see a lot of that with you boys?
Roger Sterling: No joke. Your kind with your gloomy thoughts and your worries, you're all busy licking some imaginary wound.
Don Draper: Not all imaginary.
Roger Sterling: Yeah, boo hoo.
Don Draper: Maybe I'm not as comfortable being powerless as you are.
Don Draper: It's the way I got in.
Roger Sterling: So enjoy it.
Don Draper: I'm doin' my best here.
Roger Sterling: No, you're not. You don't know how to drink. Your whole generation, you drink for the wrong reasons. My generation, we drink because it's good, because it feels better than unbuttoning your collar, because we deserve it. We drink because it's what men do.
Don Draper: What about shaky hands, I see a lot of that with you boys?
Roger Sterling: No joke. Your kind with your gloomy thoughts and your worries, you're all busy licking some imaginary wound.
Don Draper: Not all imaginary.
Roger Sterling: Yeah, boo hoo.
Don Draper: Maybe I'm not as comfortable being powerless as you are.
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Roger Sterling: What you did is totally unacceptable.
Pete Campbell: I realize that.
Roger Sterling: I want you to be very clear about this: You were fired. I wanted you out. Cooper wanted you out. And you would be...if it weren't for this man. [motions to Don] He thought you deserved another chance. That's right. He fought for you.
Pete Campbell: I don't know what to say.
Roger Sterling: Say nothing. You are here because of Don Draper's largess.
Pete Campbell: Thank you. Thank you so much.
Roger Sterling: Now, I know that your generation went to college instead of serving, so I'll illuminate you. This man is your commanding officer. You live and die in his shadow. Understood?
Pete Campbell: [nods vigorously] I won't let you down, Don.
Roger Sterling: Jesus! Campbell...don't ever say that.
Pete Campbell: I realize that.
Roger Sterling: I want you to be very clear about this: You were fired. I wanted you out. Cooper wanted you out. And you would be...if it weren't for this man. [motions to Don] He thought you deserved another chance. That's right. He fought for you.
Pete Campbell: I don't know what to say.
Roger Sterling: Say nothing. You are here because of Don Draper's largess.
Pete Campbell: Thank you. Thank you so much.
Roger Sterling: Now, I know that your generation went to college instead of serving, so I'll illuminate you. This man is your commanding officer. You live and die in his shadow. Understood?
Pete Campbell: [nods vigorously] I won't let you down, Don.
Roger Sterling: Jesus! Campbell...don't ever say that.
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Midge Daniels: [to Don on the phone] I want you to pull my hair and ravish me and leave me for dead.
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Joan Holloway: Roger, if you had your way, I would be stranded in some paperweight with my legs stuck in the air.
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