Mad Men Quotes: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Roger: Have we hired any Jews?
Don Draper: Not on my watch!
Don Draper: We should get married.
Midge: You think I’d make a good ex-wife?
Don Draper: People were buying cigarettes before Freud was born.
Pete Campbell: A man like you I’d follow into combat blindfolded, and I wouldn’t be the first. Am I right, buddy?
Don Draper: Let’s take it a little slower. I don’t want to wake up pregnant.
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.
Don Draper: I’m not going to let a woman talk to me like that!
Don Draper: This is the greatest advertisting opportunity since the invention of cereal. We have six identical companies making six identical products. We can say anything we want. How do you make your cigarettes?
Lee Garner, Jr.: I don’t know.
Lee Garner, Sr.: Shame on you. We breed insect repellant tobacco seeds, plant them in the North Carolina sunshine, grow it, cut it, cure it, toast it…
Don Draper: There you go. There you go.
[Writes on chalkboard and underlines: "IT'S TOASTED."]
Lee Garner, Jr.: But everybody’s else’s tobacco is toasted.
Don Draper: No. Everybody else’s tobacco is poisonous. Lucky Strikes’… is toasted.
Roger: Well, gentlemen, I don’t think I have to tell you what you just witnessed here.
Lee Garner, Jr.: I think you do.
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.
Lee Garner, Sr.: It’s toasted.
[Smiles]
Lee Garner, Sr.: I get it.
Don Draper: All I have is a crush-proof box, and four out of five dead people smoked your brand.
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Mad Men Quotes: New Amsterdam
Don Draper: Listen, Pete, I need you to go get a cardboard box. Put your things in it. Okay?
Don Draper: Remember when I told you about Pete Campbell’s last day? It’s today.
Roger: What’d he do?
Don Draper: While we were busting our asses on the Bethelem Steel account he was at the Regis Hotel pitching copy. His copy!
Roger: That little snot!
Don Draper: [talking about Pete Campbell] He’s essential to the process. We’re probably luckier to have him than you are.
Trudy Campbell: Oh I doubt that.
Don Draper: Well, maybe you’re right.
Don Draper: [after he and his colleagues have been discussing an unusual ad from a rival agency] Well there must be something about it. We’ve been discussing it for fifteen minutes, and this
[holds up the magazine]
Don Draper: is Playboy.
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Mad Men Quotes: Marriage of Figaro
Don Draper: [to Rachel Menkin] What is this? You can’t convince me for a second that you were ever unloved.
[he pulls her closer and they kiss]
Helen Bishop: Quite a crowd in there.
Don Draper: [watching children play house] It’s the same crowd out here.
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Mad Men Quotes: For Those Who Think Young
Peggy Olson: Sex sells.
Don Draper: Says who? Just so you know, the people who talk that way think that monkeys can do this. They take all this monkey crap and stick it in a briefcase, completely unaware that their success depends on something more than shoeshine.
Don Draper: You are the product. You feeling something. That’s what sells. Not them. Not sex. They can’t do what we do and they hate us for it.
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Mad Men Quotes: Ladies Room
Don Draper: I can’t decide… if you have everything… or nothing.
Midge Daniels: I live in the moment. Nothing *is* everything.
Midge Daniels: [finding Don outside her apartment door] 11 a.m. Did you get fired?
Don Draper: Brought Betty into the city to see the doctor, but honestly, I think I’m not feeling so great. I called in sick.
Midge Daniels: Don’t bring that here. I’m serious, Don, don’t talk to me about her. That makes me feel cruel.
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Mad Men Quotes: The Wheel
Don Draper: Nostalgia – it’s delicate, but potent. Teddy told me that in Greek, “nostalgia” literally means “the pain from an old wound.” It’s a twinge in your heart far more powerful than memory alone. This device isn’t a spaceship, it’s a time machine. It goes backwards, and forwards… it takes us to a place where we ache to go again. It’s not called the wheel, it’s called the carousel. It let’s us travel the way a child travels – around and around, and back home again, to a place where we know are loved.
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Mad Men Quotes: The New Girl
Don Draper: This never happened. It will shock you how much it never happened.
Source: IMDB
