Mad Men quotes

Peggy

We had our drink. You clearly don't need help. You need an audience.

Roger

McCann made you wait. You can make them wait.

Peggy

I'm not enjoying this. [He holds up painting] Oh, my God. What is that?

Roger

It's an octopus pleasuring a lady.

Betty

[to Sally about her cancer diagnosis] Henry shouldn't have scared you. I wanted to tell you myself.

Sally

He doesn't know you won't get treatment because you love the tragedy.

Betty

Sally, I've learned to believe people when they tell you it's over. They don't want to say it, so it's usually the truth.

Sally

Henry says you could have a year.

Betty

And what would that year be like?

Sally

I'll be with you. I won't let you give up!

Betty

I know that. But I watched my mother die. I won't do that to you. And I don't want you to think I'm a quitter. I've fought for plenty in my life. That's how I know it's over. It's not a weakness. It's been a gift to me. To know when to move on.

Pete

I was offered a job tonight. Because its origins were supernatural, I realize its benefits might be as well. I want you and Tammy to come with me. I want you to relocate to Wichita, pick out a house, and be my wife and family again.

Trudy

Peter, I'm not dismissing you, I'm just saying, with respect to whatever is happening with your eyes right now, that we both know the past can't be undone.

Pete

Says who? We're not even through half our lives. Even if we are, we're entitled to more!

Trudy

Of what?

Pete

[pause] Then we're entitled to something new. I wanna start over, and I know I can! I'm not so dumb anymore. I'm not ignoring the fact that I could lose your love.

Trudy

[gently] You never lost it. But I will not allow you to hurt me again.

Pete

[smiles] I love you, too.

Trudy

You think you can just come in here when I'm all disoriented and say the things I wanted you to say 2 years ago, and I'll just run away with you?

Pete

I said it to you 10 years ago, and I'm saying it now: I do.

Betty

[in her letter to Sally] I used to worry about you because you marched to your own drummer. But now I realize that's a good thing. You life will be an adventure. I love you. Mom.

Joan

[after trying cocaine] Ooh, that's fast! I feel like someone just gave me some very good news.

Marie

[in French] What will I do when you disappear? I'll starve! I'll be walking the streets of Manhattan with a tiny suitcase and a dollar in my pocket!

Roger

All I got was "suitcase". Yell at me slower, or in English.

Don

I messed everything up. I'm not the man you think I am.

Peggy

Don, listen to me. What did you ever do that was so bad?

Don

I broke all my vows. I scandalized my child. I took another man's name and made nothing of it.

Peggy

That's not true.

Don

I only called because I realized I never said goodbye to you.

My name's Leonard, and, uh, I don't know if there's anything that complicated about me. Which is why I should be happier, I guess.

Do you remember what I said to Daniel about 'should'?

Well, it's good for him. He's interesting. But I've never been interesting to anybody. I, um, I work in an office. People walk right by me, I know they don't see me. And I go home and I watch my wife and my kids. They don't look up when I sit down.

How does it feel to say that?

I don't know. It's like no one cares that I'm gone. They should love me. Maybe they do, but I don't even know what it is. You spend your whole life thinking you're not getting it, people aren't giving it to you. Then you realize they're trying. And you don't even know what it is. I had a dream I was on a shelf in the refrigerator. Someone closes the door and the light goes off. And I know everybody's out there eating. And then they open the door and you see them smiling and they're happy to see you. But maybe they don't look right at you and maybe they don't pick you. Then the door closes again. The light goes off.