If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
Working on ‘Mad Men’ was an incredible experience. It was such an incredible show with beautiful writing and so much complexity.
I do love the clothes on ‘Mad Men’ because my character has been so elegant and I would never have had access to these clothes. I think Janie Bryant is a costume designing genius. They’ll call and tell me, ‘It will only take an hour,’ and I’m like, ‘I will try on the whole truck!’
I expected women to get mad at me because I was knocking pregnancy any way shape or form even though I wasn’t against the act, just the timing. And also they said, ‘Well he’s mad because Becky Lynch is pregnant.’ No I’m not mad, once again, I’m astonished! At the timing!
It was weird – writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I’m a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I’m a female pop celebrity who’s pregnant. It’s a completely mad way to spend your time.
‘Mad Men’ is the greatest example of a perfect cast uniting with a perfect group of writers and creators to create a show that is bold, brutal, and brilliant.
Listen, Bruce Lee fought out of anger. That’s why they call it the ‘Fists of Fury.’ Michael Jackson danced with fury. I do stand up out of fury. I’m not mad at anybody. I’m not mad at any human being because I’m a human being.
I’m pretty adventurous – the more wacky, the better! Sometimes I’ll want to look chic, but lots of the time, I’ll wear really mad colours and patterns, as it’s just more fun.
We even say a lot of the times, we’ll put our own filter on. We’ll rein each other in when somebody’s out there. If we see somebody’s getting mad we’ll change the direction on purpose. Cause that’s not what our show is. It’s not getting people upset. It’s making each other laugh.
I’ve always been mad about cats.
What’s that song? It says, ‘Everything that you do will come back to you in your sweet time?’ That’s why I still don’t relax. Even my coach gets mad at me sometimes. He’s like, ‘Come on, man – relax.’ I go, ‘Nah.’ I’m always good.
To be able to play Jack Kerouac or Sal Paradise, it’s mad to me.
I remember playing the Mad Hatter in a school play and feeling very comfortable in the character.
I run a lot. I have this five-mile run that I try and do a few times a week. If I do more, I get shin splints and it drives me mad, so I have to balance it.
After I posted the picture of Frank Ocean, I think his little brother called him and said the picture was all over the Internet, so Frank Ocean was like, ‘I’m not on social media like that, but it’s cool. I’m not mad about it.’
You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.
The first novel I wrote was a monster – clocking in at 180,000 words – but it died a death, a death it deserved. It was called ‘The Gods First Make Mad.’ It was a good title, but it was the only good thing about the book. I didn’t let that put me off.
O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!
I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I’m not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that’s saying hello to people and falling over.
Some stuff I don’t even put out. I’ll just be home, happy, creating something for myself, and then ball it up and throw it in the trash. It’s less about trying to prove something or get on somebody’s list or make a fan happy or make a hater mad or convert a non-believer. That’s not the case for me anymore.
I think a smile can make your whole body. Models, they look fabulous, but they don’t smile, and they look so mad.
Rage only works if it is justified. That’s the trick with rage. You gotta have a reason to be mad.
I did Shakespeare in college and the nerves I got doing Shakespeare are the same nerves I get doing ‘Mad Men.’
Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.
I had acne late, in college. My skin used to be really flawless. Went to college, became a vegetarian, ate a lot of cheese – big mistake. Here I am trying to be healthy and I’m eating grilled cheese sandwiches and french fries every day, having mad eruptions all over my face.
As a fan and collector of ‘MAD’ magazines as a kid, I am well aware that my art is unworthy. I remain in absolute awe of ‘MAD’ artist Mort Drucker and loved Wally Wood and Harvey Kurtzman and Al Jaffee and Don Martin and Angelo Torres and Peter Kuper and Sergio Aragones.
As far as I can see, it’s not important that we have free will, just as long as we have the illusion of free will to stop us going mad.
I think of dystopian as ‘Mad Max,’ as ‘Book of Eli,’ as the world is ending.
I’m into the girls fancying me and stuff, mad for it.
I was never Mad Max. I was just Max who was trying to get the best result for the team.
I love to cook like a mad man. If I could do it all over again? I would be a NBA basketball player.
Nothing, I find, has prepared me for the sight of my own characters walking about. A playwright or screenwriter must expect it; a novelist doesn’t and naturally concludes that she has gone mad.
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.
My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable. As a result, the atmosphere of our home was super-charged with fear because you never knew if what you did would make him mad or not.
In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point, I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking, when my anger was aroused, I grabbed the nearest brick, rock, or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter.
I always tell people I want to live to be 150 and they say why would you want to do that. I say, well there’s a few people I haven’t made mad yet, I want to get them.
I think it would be very hard to go out with an actress, because they’re mad. Some actresses are just insane. I’ve never worked with a nasty actress – they’re all absolutely delightful. But completely barking.
I think the world’s just gone completely mad, with everyone wearing the same things, even celebrities.
Because I love making people mad. It is my favorite pastime.
When I was on ‘Mad TV,’ I figured my parents were watching, and that was it. It wasn’t ‘Saturday Night Live,’ so it didn’t really have the same high profile.
If I sit in the same square room and work on something too long, I feel like you just go mad.
How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad – simply because the thinking faculties have lain dormant!
In the industry, I got a lot of attention for ‘Mad Men,’ because everyone in the industry watches it.
The moment I was introduced to my wife, Emma, at a party I thought, here she is – and 20 minutes later I told her she ought to marry me. She thought I was as mad as a rat. She wouldn’t even give me her telephone number – and she wrote in her diary: ‘A funny little man asked me to marry him.’
Oh yes, things get me mad. But the thing is, I get mad, and then I turn around and I forget.
What happened with ‘Mad Men’ was I had just had my child, I was in a very literally and creatively fertile time in my life, and I wasn’t leaving the house much. So when ‘Mad Men’ came along, I was so excited to leave the house. Like, I get to go do this beautiful thing.
It would be wicked to do a mad ’90s tune and make it a duet with Rihanna. I love her new album ‘Anti.’ I’m into quite dark R&B.
The Mad Hatter has probably the most beautiful hat I’ve ever seen. It’s gorgeous. The costumes that this guy wears are fabulous.
I think I’m a much better father as an older man than I was with my first kids. Occasionally, I have to yell at the little guys, but they don’t take me seriously. ‘Listen to the old guy,’ they say. ‘Isn’t he great? He’s mad.’
I’m consistently blown away by ‘Mad Men.’ Having spent so much time in the writers’ room, I’m cursed in that anytime I watch something, I’m always calculating what the writers are up to.
I am mad about hats. I collect them as souvenirs from my globe trotting.
Stan said he used to keep Hardy late, make him miss his golf game, and really get him mad.
I don’t want fans mad at me, so I gotta give them what they expect and what they want.
I suddenly had this really mad desire to have an affair with a woman. I was divorced. I was childless. I figured there’s got to be one more way to really tick off my mom.
When I turned 40, subconsciously, life was a blank sheet. Before, it was disjointed, and I was very displaced and quite mad, but it was a brilliant time. Everyone thinks I must have been unhappy.
I live in New York and got a call from my agent saying there was this new role on ‘Mad Men,’ it might be recurring and they’re seeing people tomorrow. I said, ‘OK, this is one of those things where you hedge your bets, use your miles and get on a plane.’ I flew out Tuesday morning and got the job on a Wednesday.
