Don Draper quotes from Mad Men

Don

Where do you want me to start?

Betty

What's your name?

Don

[slowly] Donald Draper. But it used to be Dick Whitman.

Don Draper

No. Because there are people out there who buy things, people like you and me. And something happened. Something terrible. And the way that they saw themselves is gone. And nobody understands that. But you do. And that's very valuable.

Peggy Olson

Is it?

Don

With you or without you I'm moving on. And I don't know if I can do it alone. Will you help me?

Peggy

What if I say no? You'll never speak to me again.

Don

No. I will spend the rest of my life trying to hire you.

Don

You had everything you ever wanted. Everything! And you loved it! And now I'm not good enough for some spoiled, mainline brat?!

Betty

That's right!

Young men love risk because they can't imagine the consequences.

Don

You old men love building golden tombs and sealing the rest of us in with you.

[about not yet selling the house] Don, it's temporary.

Don Draper

Believe me, Henry, everyone thinks this is temporary.

Good time? Bad time?

Don Draper

Yes.

Don Draper

How can you stand going to the hospital every day?

I love working at the hospital. People comin' into the world, people leavin' it. Everything happens there.

Don Draper

We're going to the movies.

Lane Pryce

Do you think we should?

Don Draper

Does Howdy Doody have a wooden dick?

So I'd say Laura was the worst roommate. She had a nervous breakdown. One morning she's reading the Bible instead of her Psych book. The next morning she woke me up, leaning over me with this crazy smile, and said, ‘Morning, Stephanie. Have you heard the Good News?'

Anna Draper

There are worse things.

Don Draper

No there aren't.

Don Draper

I could tell, the minute she saw who I really was, she never wanted to look at me again. Which is why I never told her.

Anna Draper

Oh, Dick. I'm sorry she broke your heart.

Don Draper

I had it coming.

Anna Draper

I started thinking of everything I was sure was true, and how flimsy it all might be.

Don Draper

You don't have to see a UFO to know that. But it's not a great way to think about things.

Anna Draper

I know everything about you and I still love you.

Don Draper

She is very important to me. I'm going to do what I have to.

You have no say in the affairs of this family. You're just a man in a room with a checkbook. I'm sorry.

Don Draper

[holding up a bottle] Why is this empty?

Because you drank it all.

Freddy

[about a focus group] Can you imagine? Your financial future is in the hands of a room full of 22 year old girls.

Don

Not mine.

Don Draper

It's your job. I give you money, you give me ideas.

Peggy Olson

And you never say thank you.

Don

That's what the money is for!