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I love whiskey, and I'm a big fan of 'Mad Men,' so anything that Don Draper does, I like to do. But I want Don Draper to get back to where he was in the first season. I like him married and gallivanting around. -- Charles Kelley
I love 'Mad Men' & 'Nip Tuck.' -- Sara Ramirez
I've been watching Mad Men since day one. -- Gayle King
I'm a big fan of 'Mad Men.' -- Bryan Cranston
Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.' -- Cara Buono
I watch 'Mad Men,' I knit scarves, I cook and am very, very normal. Honestly. -- Annie Lennox
I do feel like the end of 'Mad Men' is a sort of a coming of age. -- Jessica Pare
It is time to do away with work place policies that belong in a Mad Men episode. -- Barack Obama
Believe it or not, there's a lot of humor in 'Mad Men.' Especially in the dark moments. -- Matthew Weiner
The way we dress on 'Mad Men' is so associated with old photographs, with people's parents and grandparents. -- Christina Hendricks
In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist. -- Salman Rushdie
I love The Killing, I love Homeland and Mad Men, all those shows that lean into the tone of things. -- M. Night Shyamalan
I've never directed anything before 'Mad Men,' so I don't feel I have any advice for the other directors. -- John Slattery
I did Shakespeare in college and the nerves I got doing Shakespeare are the same nerves I get doing 'Mad Men. -- Kristoffer Polaha
Mad Men - it seems like they try to capture this glamorized version of the '50s and '60s advertising culture. -- Geoffrey Gray
Mad Men' was really my first television role, and it never feels like TV to me. It's done at such a high level. -- January Jones
Mad Men' doesn't capture one single thing about the decor, costumes, or sexual interaction. It is a total projection of contemporary snarky attitudes into the past. -- Camille Paglia
I like that 'Mad Men' is now an adjective I use to describe clothing when I'm shopping: 'I like this top. It's very 'Mad Men.' -- Alison Brie
I'm finally watching 'Mad Men.' As a child of the '60s, I can't believe how old everything looks! I am the age of baby Eugene. -- Laurie Halse Anderson
My own beauty routine is influenced pretty heavily from my 'Mad Men' routine. If I'm in the series of work, it's hard to see myself without eyelashes every day. -- Jessica Pare
I am trying to be as impartial as possible. As you can tell from the trailers for Mad Men, I am a person who believes that you should know nothing. -- Matthew Weiner
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. -- Cecile Richards
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. -- Eric Ladin
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. -- Zosia Mamet
The fact that the Kardashians could be more popular than a show like 'Mad Men' is disgusting. It's a super disgusting part of our culture, but I still find it funny to make a joke about it. -- Jonah Hill
I would say what Mad Men has taught me has been a super elevated evaluation of text in general, and understanding subtext, and understanding where a character comes from - what he means by this or by that. -- Ben Feldman
Matthew Wiener on 'Mad Men' writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel. -- Salman Rushdie
When I watch 'Mad Men' and I see the patronising attitudes to women that are so shocking for all of us to watch now, I feel that I've lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability. -- Aimee Mullins
Believe me, when I finish shooting 'Mad Men,' there's a huge chunk of time where I have a really hard time leaving my house without fake lashes on. Which is a complex because I'm not very good at applying fake lashes. -- Jessica Pare
A lot of the fiction I read growing up was post-war American, and not all of it centers on Manhattan, but around people of the Mad Men generation, people like John Cheever and, in more modern times, Don DeLillo, who I always mention. -- Dylan Moran
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. -- Barack Obama
I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series. -- Park Chan-wook
I found myself at the beginning of 'Mad Men,' because I wasn't a sample size, spending an exorbitant amount of money on a nice dress that I would never wear again because someone would say - 'Christina Hendricks wore this dress twice.' -- Christina Hendricks
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. -- 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. -- Leslie Moonves
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. -- Kurt Sutter
There's nothing I don't love about 'Mad Men.' -- Andy Cohen
'Mad Men' has been my big break. I'm beyond thrilled. -- Jessica Pare
I never stepped foot into a Brooks Brothers before Mad Men. -- Aaron Staton
I never stepped foot into a Brooks Brothers before 'Mad Men.' -- Aaron Staton
I was the nerdy one. I always played those kind of characters until Mad Men. -- Christina Hendricks
You don't really see too many straight friendships between men and women on 'Mad Men.' -- Jay R. Ferguson
I drive past the Mad Men billboard every day and I can't believe I'm on that show. -- Jessica Pare
With 'Mad Men,' you feel like you're a member of Seal Team Six when you're shooting. -- Ben Feldman
I'd love to do something on 'Mad Men' and 'Boardwalk Empire.' I really like period stuff. -- Jeremy Allen White
I guess maybe someone at 'Dexter' saw the 'Mad Men' stuff and thought, 'He can do this.' -- Colin Hanks
In the industry, I got a lot of attention for Mad Men, because everyone in the industry watches it. -- Sarah Drew
You know, 'Mad Men' is notoriously secretive with its plotlines, even with exposing them to actors on the show. -- Alison Brie
I like 'Mad Men,' and I think 'The Killing' is pretty great too. I like 'Brothers & Sisters.' -- Betsy Brandt
I don't have a lot of money. I get some from Mad Men. But I don't think I'm rich. -- Vincent Kartheiser
I was a switchboard operator on the first season of 'Mad Men.' I was the oldest and bitterest. -- Stephanie Courtney
In the industry, I got a lot of attention for 'Mad Men,' because everyone in the industry watches it. -- Sarah Drew
One of the shows I would very much love to be a part of is 'Mad Men' - walking around that office. -- Emilia Clarke
There are many Broadway songs that apply to moments on 'Mad Men,' and I sing them on set all the time. -- Bryan Batt
With Mad Men, people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like. -- Cara Buono
And, of course, all of my friends and family are so excited because they feel like Montreal is being represented on Mad Men. -- Jessica Pare
Mad Men' is a hard act to follow. Unless you're called Elisabeth Moss, stuff like this only comes along once in your career. -- Jared Harris
With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like. -- Cara Buono
Working on 'Mad Men,' everything is word for word. And, honestly, I couldn't come up with anything better than that, so it's fine. -- Jessica Pare
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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. -- Jay R. Ferguson
I like that 'Mad Men' is now an adjective I use to describe clothing when I'm shopping: 'I like this top. It's very 'Mad Men.'' -- Alison Brie
Mad Men' still lives in my life as the best job that I've ever had because I thought the character was genius. It was so well-written. -- Patrick Fischler
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. -- Jay R. Ferguson
In the 'Mad Men' era, the archetypal dad came home; put down his briefcase; received pipe, Manhattan, roast beef, potatoes, key-lime pie; and was - apparently - content. -- Sandra Tsing Loh
It's the cable shows that are really the most interesting - 'Mad Men,' 'Breaking Bad,' those shows are really the premiere shows on television right now. -- Dylan McDermott
Before 'Mad Men,' I definitely had very dry spells and I know what those feel like, and I don't think that ever leaves you as an actor. -- Rich Sommer
If you look at the history of advertising, most of them were Jews, so it was only a matter of time before 'Mad Men' explored that area of advertising. -- Ben Feldman
If you look at the history of advertising, most of them were Jews, so it was only a matter of time before 'Mad Men' explored that area of advertising, -- Ben Feldman
I dropped out of the business for 8 years, and I taught English as a second language. Then I decided to go back to acting, and I got 'Mad Men'. -- Randee Heller
Mad Men' is the greatest example of a perfect cast uniting with a perfect group of writers and creators to create a show that is bold, brutal, and brilliant. -- Rachel G. Fox
Money is more than a massively consensual IOU note. It is a piece of infrastructure and is as artificial as Interstate 5, NutraSweet or season three of 'Mad Men.' -- Douglas Coupland
Like 'Twin Peaks,' '24,' 'Mad Men,' and 'The Sopranos' before it, 'Downton Abbey' enriches the iconography and collective lore of pop culture. It replenishes the stream. -- James Wolcott
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.' -- Cecile Richards
Oftentimes when I do a project I do get influenced by the wardrobe. I certainly learned a lot from Mad Men and from Janie (Bryant) in particular. She's just so fabulous. -- Christina Hendricks
The 1960s was a heroic age in the history of the art of communication - the audacious movers and shakers of those times bear no resemblance to the cast of characters in 'Mad Men.' -- George Lois
We're really spoiled on 'Mad Men.' Lots of television actors use the down season to go out and get creatively fulfilled, but I feel the opposite. Anything else I get to do is just icing. -- Christina Hendricks
I went to college and got my degree in acting, but because it was all theater, I really consider my first couple years on 'Mad Men' as amazing training for working in television and for acting on-camera. -- Gillian Jacobs
I think cable TV in the United States is amazing right now. It's reinvented television, really. What's going on in the States with some of these cable shows like 'Breaking Bad' and 'Mad Men' is amazing stuff. -- Robert Taylor
At the time I just was like, I can't believe I am on the show, and the first thing I have to do is an entire song and dance routine for the whole cast of 'Mad Men. -- Jessica Pare
At the time I just was like, I can't believe I am on the show, and the first thing I have to do is an entire song and dance routine for the whole cast of 'Mad Men.' -- Jessica Pare
[My mother] worked in the Seagram's Building; it's kind of an iconic '60s skyscraper on a floor so high that your ears popped. And all the women - the whole thing was so very Mad Men, very glamorous. -- Cynthia Nixon
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. -- Matthew Weiner
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. -- Rich Sommer
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 it's why I even got in the door for 'Mad Men.' -- Rich Sommer
I would be lucky to be remembered as Harry Crane. That being said, I think it's a goal for most actors to have the opportunity to play a variety of characters, so I hope any non-'Mad Men' role feels as separate as possible from Harry. -- Rich Sommer
I was watching the last season of 'Mad Men,' and they're now so in their characters and they're so comfortable in their characters, and they're doing such good work. That can only happen from doing it over and over, and developing a character over seven years. -- James Frain
Matt Weiner is very perceptive; there's something about the rhythms and the way people speak that is very authentic to the actor. But there are qualities that are dissimilar. The characters on 'Mad Men' are struggling with pretty profound unhappiness, but I can tell you this is a happy bunch. -- Aaron Staton
'Mad Men' is nothing more than the fulfillment of every possible stereotype of the early 1960s bundled up nicely to convince consumers that the sort of morally repugnant behavior exhibited by its characters - with one-night-stands and excessive consumption of Cutty Sark and Lucky Strikes - is glamorous and 'vintage.' -- George Lois
At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men. -- Aldous Huxley
I constantly remind myself that resting takes confidence. Anyone can train like a mad man but to embrace rest and to allow all the hard training to come out takes mental strength. -- Ryan Hall
Who made art history? Not the most reasonable people. The mad men did. If painting is the mirror of a time, it must be mad to have a true image of what that time is. To one madness we oppose another madness. -- Max Ernst
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. -- David Nasaw
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. -- Julius Nyerere
The american dream wasn't meant for me, cause lady liberty's a hypocrite she lied to me, promised me freedom,education, and equality never gave me nothing but slavery but now look at how dangerous you made me callin me a mad man because im strong and bold. -- Tupac Shakur
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. -- Alan Gottlieb
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. -- Allison Williams
I always say the classier cousin of 'Anchorman' is 'Mad Men,' because when you really look at it, why do people really love Don Draper in 'Mad Men?' He's just a terrible guy. But we know why he's terrible, and I think that's really key to why you can be sympathetic to a character. -- Adam McKay
Many of the prophets of Jesus's time were thought to just be mad men, just sort of crazy people who were claiming to channel the divine. Perhaps that means we should be a little less judgmental of some of our own crazies talking about God on the corner. They might actually have found a pretty comfortable place in Jesus's time. -- Reza Aslan
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Too much philosophy makes men mad. -- Alan Judd
I teach that all men are mad. -- Horace
Men went mad and were rewarded with medals. -- Joseph Heller
Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad. -- Robin Hobb
Southern women like their men religious and a little mad. -- Michael Shaara
Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad. -- Diogenes
Like all mad men, I thought everyone was mad except myself... -- Leo Tolstoy
They are mad men (Jews), but you should not burn them for that. -- Voltaire
I am so mad with love that mad men say to me - be still! -- Rumi
Most men are in a coma when they are at rest and mad when they act. -- Epicurus
To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing. -- Boris Pasternak
Men are mad and gods are madder, she told the grass, and the grass murmured its agreement. -- George R. R. Martin
Men are so thoughtless, nay, so mad, that some, through fear of death, force themselves to die. -- Epicurus
A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves -- Agatha Christie
Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness. -- Blaise Pascal
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Some men grow mad by studying much to know, But who grows mad by studying good to grow. -- Benjamin Franklin
Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all. -- Voltaire
Most men are secretly still mad at their mothers for throwing away their comic books. They would be valuable now. -- Rita Rudner
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence. -- Edgar Allan Poe

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