Best Mad Men Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

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Source: Matthew Weiner. Mad Men

“Let us leave no effort. let us give it our all we will chase our dream like mad men and mad women, who have the gall.”

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Author:Avijeet Das

“There are different categories of madmen, and different types of asylums! I know absolutely nothing about the asylums that house the madman who thinks he is a space man. Would you believe that 90% of madmen are treated in outside clinics?”

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Book:Insanity: My Mad Life

Source: Insanity: My Mad Life

“You're good. Get better. Stop asking for things.”

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Author: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.”

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Author:Don Draper

“Why does everybody need to talk about everything?”

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Author:Don Draper

“People want to be told what to do so badly that they'll listen to anyone. [Written by Andre and Maria Jacquemetton]”

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Author:Don Draper from 'Mad Men'

“I keep going to a lot of places and ending up somewhere I've already been”

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Author:Matthew Weiner

“Change is neither good or bad; it simply is.”

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Author:Matthew Weiner written for Don Draper on 'Mad Men'

“Change is neither good or bad; it simply is. [Written by Matthew Weiner]”

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Author:Don Draper from 'Mad Men'

“Peggy, just think about it. Deeply. Then forget it. And an idea will jump up in your face.”

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Author:Don Draper

“Our worst fears lie in anticipation.”

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Author:Don Draper

“I had a dream I was on the shelf in the refrigerator. Someone closes the door and the light goes off, and I know everybody's out there eating. And they open the door and you see everyone smiling and they are happy to see you but maybe they don't look right at you and maybe they don't pick you. And then the door closes again, the light goes off.”

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Author:Matthew Weiner, Mad Men Finale

“[Peggy Olson]: Just try it.”

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Author:Matthew Weiner

“There were elements of Mad Men at Newsweek, except that unlike the natty advertising types, journalists were notorious slobs and our two- and three-martini lunches were out of the office, not in...Kevin Buckley, who was hired in 1963, described the Newsweek of the early 1960s as similar to an old movie, with the wisecracking private eye and his Girl Friday. "The 'hubba-hubba' climate was tolerated," he recalled. "I was told the editors would ask the girls to do handstands on their desk. Was there rancor? Yes. But in this climate, a laugh would follow.”

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Author:Lynn Povich

“When God closes a door, he opens a dress.”

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Author:Roger Sterling

“In life we often have to do things that just are not our bag.”

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Author:Matthew Weiner

“My mom always said that life is like a horseshoe. It's fat in the middle, open on both ends, and hard all the way through.”

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Author:Abigail Whitman, Mad Men

“Let us leave no effort. Let us give it our all. We will chase our dream like mad men and mad women.”

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Author:Avijeet Das

“I did 'Mad Men' and I still have people come up to me like, 'Are you actually a lesbian?' Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they're gonna think.”

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Author:Zosia Mamet

“I guess working on 'Mad Men' turned me onto AMC and really got me watching the network, and so with that I got a good idea of the type of show they like to produce.”

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Author:Eric Ladin

“So why are we having to fight in 2012 against politicians who want to end access to birth control? It's like we woke up in a bad episode of 'Mad Men'.”

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Author:Cecile Richards

“I've never directed anything before 'Mad Men,' so I don't feel I have any advice for the other directors.”

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Author:John Slattery

“I don't think any of us could have possibly anticipated how successful Mad Men has been. When we were working on the pilot, we loved it. We thought it was special. We hoped and prayed it'd be a success. But, we didn't count on it.”

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Author:Elisabeth Moss

“Broadcasting for advertisers is still the best game in town, and they know it. Look, I admire a lot of the shows on cable. I think 'Mad Men' is wonderful. I think 'Breaking Bad' is wonderful. But let's remember they're about one-tenth the audience of NCIS.”

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Author:Leslie Moonves

“When I graduated from college in early 2010, I decided that I needed to create a calling card, some kind of business card that people can link to my name and face. So I did this 'Mad Men Theme Song...With a Twist' music video. I released it just as I moved to L.A.”

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Author:Allison Williams

“How many more tragedies does it take before we do something? How many more children have to die before this country realizes that No Gun Zones create perfect locations for violence? You can not stop criminals and mad men with laws, you can only stop violence with the fear of armed victims.”

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Author:Alan Gottlieb

“I did Shakespeare in college and the nerves I got doing Shakespeare are the same nerves I get doing 'Mad Men.'”

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Author:Kristoffer Polaha

“"Mad Men" - it seems like they try to capture this glamorized version of the '50s and '60s advertising culture.”

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Author:Geoffrey Gray

“I love 'The Killing', I love 'Homeland' and 'Mad Men', all those shows that lean into the tone of things.”

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Author:M. Night Shyamalan

“Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.”

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Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Rush like a river from the highest mountain, drink from the fountain and stop your counting. What kind of wine does he have in his tavern, oh so enchanted and sing like a mad man. Mad with the love of a wife for her husband, child or mother, sister or brother... sing for the Most High, sing for no other. We are all notes in this eternal song, God plays his flute and we all dance along.”

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Author:Trevor Hall

“I have read and re-read the Arusha Declaration and found nothing wrong with it except perhaps replacing a few commas here and there... it was clear for some of us that it would only be a mad man who would stand up and defend the Arusha Declaration.”

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Author:Julius Nyerere

“Buffett, when he gave away his money, referenced Carnegie. He quoted from Carnegie. When he said, "The man who dies rich dies disgraced," in the 1880s, his fellow millionaires looked on him like he was a lunatic, you know, an idiot, a mad man.”

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Author:David Nasaw

“What happens on “Mad Men” in terms of the acting and the writing and the directing, it’s superior. And yes, it has tremendous cache and buzz because it’s become iconic, but it also deserves all the kudos and the awards as well, because it’s a beautiful show to look at.”

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Author:Kurt Sutter

“And for Incoherent Speech, it was amongst the Gentiles taken for one sort of Prophecy, because the Prophets of their Oracles, intoxicated with a spirit, or vapor from the cave of the Pythian Oracle at Delphi, were for a time really mad, and spake like mad-men; of whoose loose words a sense might be made to fit any event, in such sort, as all bodies are said to be made of Materia prima .”

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Book:Leviathan

Source: Leviathan

“Please, with the God talk. Hate to break it to you, but there is no God.”

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Author:Howard Stern

“I never stepped foot into a Brooks Brothers before Mad Men.”

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Author:Aaron Staton

“The 12 years that I was improvising are why I got the number of commercials I got when I was in New York and why I got The Devil Wears Prada, and its why I even got in the door for Mad Men.”

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Author:Rich Sommer

“For the three years I lived in New York leading up to moving out to Los Angeles for 'Mad Men,' I was an office temp at Ernst & Young in Times Square. That's about as desk-jobby as it can get. There was a lot of, 'Go two floors up and make a copy of this and then bring it to me.'”

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Author:Rich Sommer

“Frankly, as much as I love to improvise, it hasn't been difficult to stick to the script on 'Mad Men.' The writing is so precise, and the story so carefully crafted, that I don't think there's room - or need - for ad libbing. I could never come up with dialogue as lovely as these writers do, anyway.”

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Author:Rich Sommer

“A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“I don't know what 'Mad Men' has done for my fan base. I didn't know that I still had a fan base, to be honest.”

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Author:Jay R. Ferguson

“I have been recognized from Mad Men, and it’s so cool when that happens because I am so proud to be a part of the show.”

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Author:Jay R. Ferguson

“What happens with Mad Men, its like an Elvis Costello album; Ill watch it, and then I immediately have to watch it again. AMC will play it back-to-back. I have a tendency to yell at it when my wifes not around because if she catches me yelling at Mad Men, then it gets weird.”

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Author:Michael Weatherly

“With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.”

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Author:Cara Buono

“Fighting is all about calmness and relaxation. My appearance was all an illusion. My appearance is of a mad man, but I'm really calm and collected. Even though I'm fighting, I'm calm and relaxed as possible, despite my displays, because once you get excited, you can't fight at the highest level of your ability.”

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Author:Mike Tyson

“I guess maybe someone at 'Dexter' saw the 'Mad Men' stuff and thought, 'He can do this.'”

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Author:Colin Hanks

“At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.”

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Author:Aldous Huxley

“It took seven years from the time I wrote Mad Men until it finally got on the screen. I lived every day with that script as if it were going to happen tomorrow. That’s the faith you have to have.”

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Author:Matthew Weiner

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