[to Pete Campbell] The day you sign a client is the day you start losing him.
[a few minutes later]
Roger SterlingThe day you sign a client is the day you start losing him.
You don't really believe that.
A character in Mad Men
Played by John Slattery
Mad Men · 308 quotes
2nd most-quoted character in Mad Men: in 60 of its 308 quotes
Most scenes with: Don Draper (15), Pete Campbell (6), Peggy Olson (5)
[to Pete Campbell] The day you sign a client is the day you start losing him.
[a few minutes later]
Roger SterlingThe day you sign a client is the day you start losing him.
You don't really believe that.
Roger SterlingLook, I want to tell you something because you're very dear to me and I hope you understand it comes from the bottom of my damaged, damaged heart. You are the finest piece of ass I ever had and I don't care who knows it. I am so glad I got to roam those hillsides.
Stop it.
I just wanted to let you both know how honored I am with this promotion.
Roger SterlingHelp yourself... not the Stoli.
Roger SterlingIt's a mistake to be conspicuously happy.
No one thinks you're happy. They think you're foolish.
It doesn't make any sense. It looks right, sounds right, smells right. But something's not right. What is it?
RogerShe's not Ann-Margret.
He might lose his foot.
RogerRight when he got it in the door.
Roger SterlingI watched the sunrise today. Couldn't sleep.
How was it?
Roger SterlingAverage.
Roger SterlingPeggy, can you get me some coffee?
No.
What about our other clients?
Roger SterlingWe have no other clients! If Lee Garner, Jr. wants three wise men flown in from Jerusalem, he gets it.
RogerThey don't seem to give awards for what I do.
And what is that?
Roger[about Don] Find guys like him.
I'm gettin' this.
RogerWhy would you do that?
Sometimes a fella's gotta pick up the check.
I slept last night for the first time in a month.
RogerYou slept? Really? You weren't smiling over the taste of shit that would be in everybody's mouth over breakfast today?
[about his small office] Where am I supposed to conduct business?
RogerIn the crapper for all I care.
Roger[about Megan] Why don't you sing like that?
[about Don] Why don't you look like him?
[Roger "promotes" Harry to a windowless office in the basement]
Roger[holds up a wad of cash] It's more than a thousand, Harry. That... is a month's salary. After taxes.
There's no window in there.
RogerYou could buy yourself a very beautiful picture of something to look at.
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