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Matthew Weiner Quotes

Total quotes: 45
“Fear stimulates my imagination.”
— Don Draper, Mad Men, Season 1: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Tagged: Fear, stimulates, Imagination
“Sometimes we don't get to choose where our talents lie.”
— Don Draper, Mad Men, Season 5: Lady Lazarus
Tagged: Talents, Passive Aggressive
“Change is neither good nor bad. It simply is.”
— Don Draper, Mad Men, Season 3: Love Among the Ruins
Tagged: Change, Good, Bad, Simple
“Of course I love you. I'm giving up my life to be with you, aren't I?”
— Pete Campbell, Mad Men, Season 1: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Tagged: Love, Sacrifice
“Ben: I just want to see my friend.

Steve: Wait a second, I know that guy.

Dave: You what?

Ben: My dad died.”
— Steve Dallas, Are You Here
Tagged: Living Will, Death of a Father
“Therapist: Are you afraid right now?

Ben: I feel alone in the universe, except for Steve.”
— Ben Baker, Are You Here
Tagged: Fear, Alone
“Don: We should get married.

Midge: You think I'd make a good ex-wife?”
— Don Draper, Mad Men, Season 1: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Tagged: Marriage, ex-wife
“Peggy, just think about it. Deeply. Then forget it. And an idea will jump up in your face.”
— Don Draper, Mad Men, Season 1: Indian Summer
Tagged: Ideas, Forgetting
“Trudy: Have you been drinking?

Pete: The whole country's drinking!”
— Pete Campbell, Mad Men, Season 3: The Grown-Ups
Tagged: Alcohol, Drinking, JFK Assassination
“Paul Kinsey: He might lose his foot.

Roger: Right when he got it in the door.”
— Paul Kinsey, Mad Men, Season 3: Guy Walks Into an Advertising Agency
Tagged: Advancement
“Please, can we stop all this bickering? A man died here, a very rich man.”
— Steve Dallas, Are You Here
Tagged: Bickering, Dead Man, rich man
“The bearded, bespectacled doctor murdered at least 26 patients, making him one of the world's most prolific killers. So, Steve, how's it looking out there today? It's about time we saw some of this warmer weather.”
— Victoria Riolobos, Are You Here
Tagged: Serial Killers, Understatement, Warm Weather
“The reason you haven't felt is because it doesn't exist. What you call love was invented by guys like me...to sell nylons.”
— Don Draper, Mad Men, Season 1: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Tagged: Love, Advertising
“Don: Let me ask you something, what do women want?

Roger: Who cares?”
— Don Draper, Mad Men, Season 1: Ladies Room
Tagged: What Women Want, Misogyny
“Well, you know what they say about Detroit. It's all fun and games till they shoot you in the face.”
— Roger Sterling, Mad Men, Season 6: In Care Of
Tagged: Detroit, Murder
“The truth is people may see things differently, but they don't really want to.”
— Don Draper, Mad Men, Season 3: Wee Small Hours
Tagged: Perception, Disagreement
“She died like she lived. Surrounded by the people she answered phones for.”
— Roger Sterling, Mad Men, Mad Men Season 4: The Beautiful Girls
Tagged: Secretaries
“Can someone please get my wife out of the kitchen? I have something very nice to say about her.”
— Roger Sterling, Mad Men, Season 3: The Grown-Ups
Tagged: Nice, Saying Something Nice
“My mother wore a girdle all the time and she always had a stomachache and I always thought, 'You'd rather have a stomachache just so dad will like you?'”
— Sandy Schmidt, Mad Men, Season 6: The Doorway
Tagged: girdle, Stomachache, Women's Clothes
“Bud: When you think about it, it won't bring her back. She's in the water. With father.

Pete: She loved the sea.”
— Pete Campbell, Mad Men, Season 6: In Care Of
Tagged: Loving The Sea, Dead In The Ocean
“Ted: Someday you'll be glad I made this decision.

Peggy: We'll aren't you lucky. To have decisions.”
— Peggy Olson, Mad Men, Season 6: In Care Of
Tagged: Decisions
“And at 100% humidity and 89 degrees, Little Hilo, Hawaii, is both the hottest and wettest spot in the nation. I guess that makes it the number-one destination for teenage boys, eh, Victoria?”
— Steve Dallas, Are You Here
Tagged: Hawaii, Hilo, Tropical Rain Forest, Victoria
“Steve, I would prefer to forego your input since it most recently resulted in my brother becoming fat, unemployed and growing that supremely antisocial beard.”
— Terri Baker, Are You Here
Tagged: fat, unemployed, beard, Anti-Male
“Terri: Look at her, the slutty, wicked stepmother. You can practically see through that dress.

Red: I don't think so.”
— Terri Baker, Are You Here
Tagged: wicked stepmother, see-through dress
“She won't be happy til her face looks like an English saddle.”
— Anushka, The Romanoffs, Season 1: The Violet Hour
Tagged: upset, face, Simile Examples, english, saddle
“Help yourself...not the Stoli.”
— Roger Sterling, Mad Men, Season 3: Out of Town
Tagged: Alcoholism, Stoli, Self-Help
“Dying doesn't make you whole. You should see what you look like.”
— Private Dinkins, Mad Men, Season 6: The Better Half
Tagged: Death
“Well, he knows how to leave a room.”
— Danny Farrell, Mad Men, Season 3: The Color Blue
Tagged: Exits
“Jane wanted a baby but I thought, 'Why do that to somebody?'”
— Matthew Weiner, Mad Men, Season 5: Lady Lazarus
Tagged: Childbirth, Anti-Natalist
“I like your skin. It's like café crème”
— Anushka, The Romanoffs, Season 1: The Violet Hour
Tagged: skin, Simile Examples
“I never even dreamed of having what I have now.”
— Greg, The Romanoffs, Season 1: The Violet Hour
Tagged: Dreamed, Fortune, wildest dream
“How can you live here without looking for a high place to jump from?”
— Ben Baker, Are You Here
Tagged: Suicide
“This is ridiculous. If I'm going to die, I want to die in Manhattan.”
— Pete Campbell, Mad Men, Season 2: Meditations in an Emergency
Tagged: Death, Manhattan
“Get out of here, all of you. Go chase a hearse.”
— Roger Sterling, Mad Men, Mad Men Season 4: The Beautiful Girls
Tagged: Ambulance Chasers
“You want to be taken seriously? Stop dressing like a little girl.”
— Joan Holloway, Mad Men, Season 2: Maidenform
Tagged: gender roles, Being Taken Seriously
“Well, one day you're there and then all of a sudden there's less of you. And you wonder where that part went, if it's living somewhere outside of you, and you keep thinking maybe you'll get it back. And then you realize, it's just gone.”
— Peggy Olson, Mad Men, Season 2: Meditations in an Emergency
Tagged: Loss
“I hope she knows you only like the beginnings of things.”
— Faye Miller, Mad Men, Mad Men Season 4: Tomorrowland
Tagged: Beginnings, Endings
“I told him to be himself. That was pretty mean, I guess.”
— Roger Sterling, Mad Men, Season 3: Love Among the Ruins
Tagged: Be yourself, insults
“Is that what you want, or is that what people expect of you?”
— Don Draper, Mad Men, Mad Men Season 4: The Good News
Tagged: Want, Questions, Expectations
“I can love you without that apartment, but I can't love a jellyfish.”
— Sophie, The Romanoffs, Season 1: The Violet Hour
Tagged: apartment, Metaphor Examples, Jellyfish, Love
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