Mad Men Quotes: “Mad Men” is an American period drama television series created by Matthew Weiner. The show first premiered on AMC on July 19, 2007, and ran for seven seasons, concluding on May 17, 2015.
Set in the 1960s, the series focuses on the business of the advertising agencies on Madison Avenue in New York City, hence the title “Mad Men” – a slang term coined in the ’50s by advertisers working on Madison Avenue to refer to themselves.
Mad Men Quotes
1- Don Draper : “Why does everybody need to talk about everything?”
2- Don Draper : “You came here because we do this better than you and part of that is letting our creatives be unproductive until they are.”
3- Joan Harris: “I’m not a solution to your problems. I’m another problem”
4- Peggy Olson: “Honestly, why is it that every time a man takes you out to lunch around here, you’re… you’re the dessert!”
5- Pete Campbell: “If I’m going to die, I’m going to die in Manhattan.”
6- Marie Calve: “She’s the apple that goes in the pig’s mouth.”
7- Matthew Weiner : “Change is neither good or bad; it simply is.”
8- Roger Sterling: “Well, I’ve got to go learn a load of people’s names before I fire them.”
9- Beth Dawes: “You don’t know me. And I don’t know you. We just have the same problem.”
10- Don Draper : “You want some respect? Go out and get it for yourself.”
11- Joan Harris: “But that’s life. One minute you’re on top of the world, the next minute some secretary’s running you over with a lawn mower.”
12- Don Draper : Fear stimulates my imagination.
13- Matthew Weiner : “I keep going to a lot of places and ending up somewhere I’ve already been”
14- Joan Harris: “He may act like he wants a secretary, but most of the time they’re looking for something between a mother and a waitress.“
15- Don Draper : “People want to be told what to do so badly that they’ll listen to anyone.”
16- Don Draper : “Los Angeles is not what you see in the movies. It’s like Detroit with palm trees.”
17- Don Draper :” If you don’t like what is being said, then change the conversation.”
18- Joan Harris: “Men don’t take time to end things. They ignore you until you insist on a declaration of hate. “
19- Pete Campbell: Of course I love you. I’m giving up my life to be with you, aren’t I?
20- Roger Sterling: “I like redheads. Their mouths are like a drop of strawberry jam in a glass of milk.”
21- Roger Sterling: “I should’ve known it was near the end. Every time an old man starts talking about Napoleon, you know they’re going to die.”
22- Betty Draper: “That poor girl. She doesn’t know that loving you is the worst way to get to you.”
23- Don Draper: “They say as soon you have to cut down on your drinking, you have a drinking problem.“
24- Peggy Olson : “Am I the only one who can work and drink at the same time?”
25- Roger Sterling: “You know what my father used to say? ‘Being with a client is like being in a marriage. Sometimes you get into it for the wrong reasons, and eventually they hit you in the face.’”
26- Don Draper: “If you don’t like what’s being said, change the conversation.”
27- Roger Sterling: “Well, you know what they say about Detroit. It’s all fun and games till they shoot you in the face.”
28- Don Draper: Sometimes we don’t get to choose where our talents lie.
29- Joan Holloway : You want to be taken seriously? Stop dressing like a little girl.
30- Don Draper: Peggy, just think about it. Deeply. Then forget it. And an idea will jump up in your face.
32- Roger Sterling: Remember Don. When God closes a door he opens a dress.
33- Don Draper: The truth is people may see things differently, but they don’t really want to.
34- Lane Pryce: I feel like I just went to my own funeral. I didn’t like the eulogy.
35- Roger Sterling: Look, I want to tell you something because you’re very dear to me. And I hope you understand that it comes from the bottom of my damaged, damaged heart. You are the finest piece of ass I’ve ever had and I don’t care who knows it. I am so glad that I got to roam those hillsides.
36- Don Draper: “Advertising is based on one thing: happiness. And do 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 a road that screams with reassurance that whatever you’re doing is OK. You are OK.”
37- Faye Miller: “I hope she knows you only like the beginnings of things.”
