Mad Men (TV Series)

The Other Woman (2012)

Jon Hamm: Don Draper

Quotes 

• Don Draper : You must get tired of hearing what a beautiful thing this car is. But I've met a lot of beautiful women in my life, and despite their protestations, they never tire of hearing it. But when deep beauty is encountered, it arouses deep emotions because it creates a desire as it is, by nature, unattainable. We're taught to think that function is all that matters, but we have a natural longing for this other thing. When I was driving the E-type, I passed a ten-year-old boy in the back window of a station wagon, and I watched his eyes follow. He had just seen something he would want for the rest of his life. He'd just seen that unattainable object speed by just out of reach because they do that; don't they? Beautiful things. Then I thought about a man of some means reading Playboy or Esquire, flipping past the flesh to the shiny, painted curves of this car. There's no effort to stop his eye. The difference is, he can have a Jaguar. Oh, this car... this thing, gentlemen... What price would we pay? What behavior would we forgive? If they weren't pretty, if they weren't temperamental, if they weren't beyond our reach, a little out of control, would we love them like we do? Jaguar. At last, something beautiful you can truly own.

• Michael Ginsberg : I know I'm not a manager, but it's very hard to get things done with you in another room.

  Don Draper : Well, I obviously have the opposite feeling.

  Michael Ginsberg : Permission to speak freely?

  Don Draper : What?

  Michael Ginsberg : I know you forbid us from thinking of the mistress, but I kept imagining the asshole who's gonna want this car and how he's probably already got a lot of beautiful things...

  Don Draper : Or maybe he thinks the car will help him get them.

  Michael Ginsberg : So I can go on?... And one way or another, what he has isn't enough, so no matter what the first idea has gotta be, "Finally!" like you're getting what you wanted. The copy is still describing the car as another woman, but a woman you can't have because they have all the qualities of a Jaguar. Good looking, expensive, fast, and frankly, not practical.

  Don Draper : I've always been fine with all that. But what's the line?

  Michael Ginsberg : Jaguar... at last, something beautiful you can truly own.

  [Don looks down for a moment, then laughs with Ginsberg in mutual reprieve] 

• Pete Campbell : I've seen the campaign, and it's something I couldn't have imagined yet exactly what I expected.

  Don Draper : Thank you.

  Pete Campbell : And I want you to present in the fullest confidence.

  Don Draper : I think it's a winner.

  Pete Campbell : Well, all I wanted to say was we've removed all other impediments. But you do know no matter what else goes on, it's the creative that's going to win this.

  [smirks] 

  Don Draper : Close the door.

  Pete Campbell : It was four to zero. You abstained in absentia. The conversation doesn't end just because you leave the room.

  Don Draper : What did you promise her?

  Pete Campbell : A five percent stake as a voting partner.

  Don Draper : Dawn, can you buzz Mrs. Harris?

  Pete Campbell : She's not here.

  Don Draper : Actually, Dawn, can you get my things?

  [packs up his belongings] 

  Pete Campbell : Yes, you should be well rested.

  Don Draper : I don't want it like this.

  Pete Campbell : It was her idea.