Mad Quotes

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.

I was the nerdy one. I always played those kind of characters until Mad Men.

I guess maybe someone at 'Dexter' saw the 'Mad Men' stuff and thought, 'He can do this.'

You will say that I am old and mad, was what Michaelangelo wrote, but I answer that there is no better way of being sane and free from anxiety than by being mad.

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.

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.

I've been watching Mad Men since day one.

"Mad Men" - it seems like they try to capture this glamorized version of the '50s and '60s advertising culture.

It's a fool boy who mocks a giant, and a mad world when a cripple has to defend him.

A mad man sees what he sees.

I will always be mad at someone. That will never go away.

Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.

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.

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.

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.

Being mad is activating. Being sad can lead to hopelessness. I'm not hopeless. I'm very hopeful.

I've never directed anything before 'Mad Men,' so I don't feel I have any advice for the other directors.

The mad person who knows that they are mad is close to sanity.

I did Shakespeare in college and the nerves I got doing Shakespeare are the same nerves I get doing 'Mad Men.'

Like all mad men, I thought everyone was mad except myself.

People don't know how chickens can turn on you, but they can -- just like mad dogs.

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.

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.

I'm not going to rush anything and scamper around like a mad person and make myself crazy.

I remember being mad about having pink and red shoes. I gew up envying other girls' pink and red shoes.

In a way, everybody is wounded from the wound of the real. This phenomenon is similar to madness. The mad person is wounded by his or her distorted relationship to the real.

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.

In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.

I love 'Mad Men' & 'Nip Tuck.'

In the industry, I got a lot of attention for Mad Men, because everyone in the industry watches it.

They are mad men (Jews), but you should not burn them for that.

You're not supposed to be accepting trophies. You're supposed to be in the back being mad that people are getting trophies.

Harriet, Hi! Light of my eye! Come to the pictures and have a good cry, For it's jolly old Saturday, Mad-as-a-hatter-day, Nothing-much-matter-day-night!

And I'm not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it.

I never stepped foot into a Brooks Brothers before Mad Men.

Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I'd make one that I can't get yelled at for.

Sometimes I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is a method in his madness.

I think I'm equally as abusive as the editors normally are for the "Letters and Tomatoes" column, which is the fan mail part of MAD Magazine and an ongoing feature.

It's hard to say, I picked one of my favorite articles for the MAD vault. Which is one of the features of the Magazine so they don't have to actually pay artists or writers to come up with new stuff.

Too much philosophy makes men mad.

I’ve known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.

If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad.

Phrase books seem to be a universal and eternal source of hilarity and I think I know why. Their authors go mad in the course of compiling them.

Mostly it was Mad magazine. And I did read a lot of - I had a subscription when I was little, but I also had access to some old collections, the little paperbacks of the really good stuff.

You can choose to be mad in a negative way where it fuels you to do mean, hateful things, or you can let your madness fuel your art and channel it in a positive way.

You are back, Cam. Which means for the first time since you left, it's okay for us to be mad at you for leaving. - Macey

I feel very comfortable in my own skin. When someone makes jokes about me being heavy, it makes me mad. It's not true. I'm right where I should be.

I'm glad nobody has asked me to adapt 'Wuthering Heights' because I think I would make a mess of it. Everybody makes a mess of it. I think the Bronte Sisters are mad.

He'd said the sun could burn me. It certainly looked angry enough, all orange and glowing mad.

Maybe, sometimes, it's easier to be mad at the people you trust because you know they'll always love you, no matter what.