Top 575 Mad Quotes

It makes me mad to see people in government serving themselves at our expense.

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

Almost every week, someone’s mad at me.

I’m not mad at digital media at all; I just see the importance and beauty of physical media.

I’m not interested in the mad race. I just like working with good people.

I came into the advertising business in 1952, at the age of sixteen, as a delivery boy for a stuffy, old-line advertising agency named Ruthruff and Ryan, which could have served as the setting for the ‘Mad Men’ television series without moving a desk.

I’m sure I’ve all but lost friends by maintaining that, despite their love for it, I always saw Stanley Kramer’s ‘It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World’ as more of an exercise in anti-comedy than humor.

Solo artists are generally totally insane. Elton John? Slightly eccentric. George Michael? He’s mad as custard.

The ingredients for great advertising haven’t changed since the ‘Mad Men’ era: Brands win if their advertising is relevant and people like it.

I am mad for nature writing. I want to get inside the head of every creature in the world, even ants.

I hate alarms. If they go off I get really tetchy. I hate them. They just get me going, I’m hyper at the best of times, but they drive me mad.

Even the fact that I labelled myself makes me mad sometimes, because dude, I’m just a free spirit.

As any successful mad scientist will tell you, energy ain’t free. Popular culture tends to forget this, instead focusing on the destructive capabilities of our finely crafted death rays without noting the massive energy expenditures required to use them.

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

I love whiskey, and I’m a big fan of ‘Mad Men,’ so anything that Don Draper does, I like to do. But I want Don Draper to get back to where he was in the first season. I like him married and gallivanting around.

I leave work by 6:30 P.M. so I can spend some time with the children. Inevitably, we’ll end up watching basketball or football. I live in a house of boys, and they’re all sports mad, so I don’t stand a chance.

If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.

Mad Season changed my life in a million different ways.

I like to smile when its natural. I’m not mad or anything. That’s my style.

All I wanted was attention from girls when I was a kid. Then I got my braces off, and then there was too much attention, and I was also mad that they didn’t pay attention to me in the first place. Then I was just like, I couldn’t put on blinders and focus on one because there were too many options.

I’m very Southern in the way I walk in the world. I love to laugh. I love to eat. I love to hug people. But if somebody makes me mad, my neck may roll. I can be aggressive with a Southern twang.

‘Raman Raghav’ will break my image of cute boy-next-door. My character in the film is mad, demented, very aggressive. He is a good cop but has his own issues.

The ‘Aladdin’ thing – that’s not work; that’s just fun. Three days in the recording studio going mad, then the animators do all the work. Not a bad way to cash a large check, my friend.

I like vampires, tuberculosis, anything to do with blood. Then I read a biography of Rasputin and found out he’d had this daughter who had become a famous lion tamer and been billed as the daughter of the mad monk who was able to hypnotize animals with her eyes. It gave me a vision.

I don’t watch ‘Mad Men.’

I heard Mr. Wild Bill Davis. I heard him play in 1930 and he told me that it would take me fifteen years just to learn the pedals, the pedals of the organ and I got mad.

I have mad love for the way we were taught and trained back in the day. I mean, those of us – like Chaka Khan, Patti LaBelle, Gladys Knight – we didn’t give into this new wave of celebrity.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

There is only one Dwayne Johnson. What Dwayne has done is absolutely fantastic. He had a vision when he was here at WWE. He promotes like a mad man. We’ll see how I do with John Cena before I can be mentioned in the company of Dwayne Johnson.

People in Hollywood go home to their wives and children who look like they do. If you’re in that position, your natural thought pattern is sometimes to think, ‘Superman, oh yeah he’s white.’ You can’t get mad at somebody for doing that. It’s the world they live in and for some, they only live in that bubble.

I welcome him like I welcome cold sores. He’s from England, he’s angry and he’s got Mad Power Disease.

With brothers you become friends. Some you hang out with more than others. You talk to one about the other a little more. You get mad at them. Then, you love them. Then, you apologize. You have to apologize whether you want to or not. You have to. That’s your brother.

‘Mad Men’ introduced me to the power of fashion.

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

My dad’s a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.

The Mets represent life and the reality of life, the winning, the losing, the hope, the faith. You stick with them through the ups and the downs, the heartbreaks. Every year you always have hope. You always have faith, even when they break your heart. You get mad, but you stick with them. They’re humbling.

Some people play best when they’re frustrated and mad. I play my best when I’m happy. I really, truly do.

I could not be one of those actors who stays in character all day long. I’d go mad.

All of my characters are a little bit based on people I know in real life. You know when you do that you have to change the character a little bit in case your friend or your relative reads the book, because you don’t want them to know you wrote about them… They might get mad.

Journalists always explain that people are mad at them because they tell the truth, which is often unpleasant or uncomfortable to hear. However, they fail in situations where there is more than one truth.

For all the benefits of being in the public eye, there is the odd downside, too. Twitter goes mad sometimes with people saying weird stuff. It is a bit strange, but you can just ignore them. It is not even worth getting worked up about.

Mel will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number.

If you look at the history of advertising, most of them were Jews, so it was only a matter of time before ‘Mad Men’ explored that area of advertising.

I always get mad when guys make shots in the first quarter, second quarter, pumping their chest, and then the game on the line, they miss. So you’re doing all that for no reason.

I’ve been on predominantly ‘white’ shows before, and I had also been on predominantly ‘black’ shows. I would complain that when I was on a white show, they would only hire me because there was a black character or they needed a black voice. But then I would be mad if they went and hired a white dude in my position.

My early ambitions were the same as they are now – to play for Manchester United. I was, and still am, football mad.

It’s been insane. From Whitey Bulger to the Mad Hatter, you can imagine the schizophrenia.

I was on mad platinum albums… I produced and wrote on them.

I was very involved in political satire, and I’d been writing parody for ‘Mad’ and ‘National Lampoon,’ so I made up some strange story about Gerald Ford.

I play Nitin Sawhney’s ‘Letting Go’ repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I’m so glad iPods were invented so I didn’t have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.

People call me the human emoji because I think people recognize that if I’m ever thinking something or feeling a certain emotion, it goes straight to my face. So if I’m happy, you’ll know I’m happy, and if I’m mad, you’ll know I’m mad just by looking at me.

Within the U.S., you could have argued that most people who watch ‘Mad Men’ would watch ‘House of Cards.’ But the viewing is much more on par with the large-scale mainstream things like ‘The Walking Dead.’ It was much younger than we thought.

I’m a very sympathetic person, but that doesn’t always come across in my work because I’m too busy being mad at everything.

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them.

I’d get to within a yard of that door you walk through and the thing would go mad. I used to carry an X-ray in my briefcase, to show them. But I had all the metal taken out.

Written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies and directed by Sundance nominee James Ponsoldt, ‘The End of the Tour’ is a terrific film, among the year’s best with its two-man tarantella of wall-to-wall talk – and I watched it through my fingers as though it were Mad Max.