Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.
I just don’t think you can make records easily and have them be great. It’s a process. You’ve got to get really lucky all the time, or you’ve got to work like mad.
The world used us as an excuse to go mad.
I was Popeye mad when I was a kid, and I’d eat spinach until the cows came home.
My last audition for ‘Baby Driver,’ I had to meet with Jon Hamm and go through the scenes. I was a bit nervous: ‘What if Jon Hamm dislikes me? This is the end.’ I also watched ‘Mad Men’ religiously, so that didn’t help with my nerves.
My husband and I are best of friends first and foremost. We fight like cats and dogs, but never stay mad for long. I was lucky to find him, he is in every way, my soulmate.
I’m not going to get mad over something that I have no control over.
‘Mad Men’ has been my big break. I’m beyond thrilled.
If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people’s expectations, then you can go mad.
We are all born mad. Some remain so.
I watched so many comic book movies where the actors weren’t as built as the characters in the book. It made me mad because they didn’t look right.
Though I weigh only 120 pounds, when I’m mad, I weigh a ton.
This is my Achilles heel. If some Internet technician is on the phone with me and he’s being irrational and incompetent and stupid, I get really mad and I can sort of feel my blood pressure going up.
Over the years, it seems ‘Firefly’ has only gained momentum rather than lost it. I still get letters from people who watched the show – I get more ‘Firefly’ than ‘Mad Men’ letters.
Gas is almost a give-away in the U.S. at the moment. They’ve gone for fracking in a big way. This is what makes me very cross with the greens for trying to knock it… Let’s be pragmatic and sensible and get Britain to switch everything to methane. We should be going mad on it.
I moved away when I was 17. It’s been a mad journey, but I’ve met and made some incredible friends.
The way we dress on ‘Mad Men’ is so associated with old photographs, with people’s parents and grandparents.
When you are mad at yourself, you are mad at everybody.
I miss ‘Mad Men,’ but I can’t complain because I got a lot of public awareness from it, and it led on to film offers such as ‘Sherlock.’
You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.
I watched ‘The Sopranos,’ I saw a couple of episodes of ‘Mad Men.’ I loved ‘Seinfeld.’ In fact, I got some CDs of ‘Seinfeld.’ ‘Seinfeld’ was hilarious. Oh, boy. The Nazi soup kitchen? ‘No soup for you!’
My father had risen in the British Army under the revolutionary aegis of General Montgomery, who was mad about training for battle, not muddling into disaster.
A lot of times, people have something that they’re afraid of. They’ve got a client that’s mad at them. They’ve got a project that’s due. And they let that stress hang over their head. I don’t let that happen.
I tried to get a job as a TV cameraman and they basically told me, ‘You’re mad, everyone wants these jobs – and if you go to England, you’re doubly mad.’ But I worked in abattoirs for 10 months to earn my money, then left for London. I didn’t even know what a director did.
I had a big time punk-rock phase and psychobilly phase. I used to go mad for the Guana Batz.
My own beauty routine is influenced pretty heavily from my ‘Mad Men’ routine. If I’m in the series of work, it’s hard to see myself without eyelashes every day.
You know what makes me mad about ‘The Bachelorette?’ That, you know, that that chick would get a man. Get me a date.
Being cool is when you win, you don’t get too happy; and when you lose, you don’t get too mad.
When I first got pregnant, my husband and I were huge consumers of premium cable television, and we were watching all of these shows, and it would either be the B-storyline of a show like ‘Homeland,’ where she’s a working mother, or you have even smaller C-storylines on a show like ‘Mad Men.’
One is always considered mad, when one discovers something that others cannot grasp.
If you told my 13-year-old self that one day I’d be talking about how Tom Cruise and I had good chemistry, she’d think you were completely mad.
We are still fearful, superstitious and all-too-human creatures. At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until they run away from us, like mad sorcerers’ apprentices, and drag us up to the precipice for a look down into the abyss.
Everybody’s a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We’re all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.
If you’re functional, it doesn’t matter if you’re mad.
My childhood dream was always to be on Broadway. I wanted to end up in TV and film. It’s kind of flipped, and I’m not mad about it, but my childhood dream is Broadway and I want to end up there.
I believe that people of faith by and large have a great interest in the institution of family and that a family is a great place to learn leadership skills. I’m sure I benefited by having a mom and mad, both of whom were actively involved in the community and in various enterprises.
Every good love story is actually completely insane, completely mad.
I think that it’s okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn’t about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.
People might get mad at my style or my delivery and say it’s not country. But the country music that brought me to Nashville? Man, I will always have that on a pedestal.
With ‘Blue Slide Park’ I wanted to have a number one album, and I did do it, so I’m not mad at it, but that was its goal.
I’m wary of the word ‘inventing,’ because in the British psyche the word ‘inventor’ is immediately linked with ‘mad’. For me, inventing is problem-solving.
I don’t think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad. You exist in a bubble. There comes a point where you suddenly feel not really a part of the world, you’re just passing through.
Some people are ok with doing nothing all day after they retire, but then some people if they had nothing to do would go mad and start banging their heads against a wall.
When you’re a girl, passion can dominate the equation, but as you grow up relationships evolve. Mad passion can grab you at first, but it can’t last forever.
In a mad world, only the mad are sane.
I used to be mad, at first, that I couldn’t sound like Ice Cube. And I think that was probably one of the best things for me.
To be fair, I don’t get mad when people laugh at me when I fall down.
Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don’t take chances then you’ll never have a winning hand, and I’ve no regrets.
You can’t play music and be mad at anybody. It’ll show in your heart!
When most people are unhappy customers, they get mad; I try to get rich. All of my businesses started the same way: I got rich by improving the world and making a lot of people happier in the process.
I’m a mad Gummi fan. I always have Gummis in my trailer. But you can’t eat too many because then you get Gummi tummy, and that’s no good. I can’t believe I’m saying this.
The things that make me very angry are injustice and bullying. If I see someone bullying a woman or child in the street, or kicking a dog, I go completely mad.
I was watching the last season of ‘Mad Men,’ and they’re now so in their characters and they’re so comfortable in their characters, and they’re doing such good work. That can only happen from doing it over and over, and developing a character over seven years.
Anyone who has been obsessed or been in a mad love affair, sometimes you don’t make the right decisions.
I get mad when people give me presents. I don’t want them, I don’t need them.
To drive an F1 car you have to be a little mad. On the morning of a race there’s a mix of excitement and fear. If it’s a wet track, then it’s worse as you’re not in control most of the time, which is the thing all drivers fear the most.
The public is mad, frustrated, but what the public wants is progress.
We have become 99 percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts.
It’s the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you’re mad, then dangerous, then there’s a pause and then you can’t find anyone who disagrees with you.
The phrase ‘mad as a hatter’ was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities – traits that resembled mental instability.
