“I keep telling myself I don’t practice enough to be a perfectionist. And I don’t practice enough to get mad. So my temper has subdued and my attitude is subdued.”

Everything a captain does in a team room is done to keep the team loose.

I always told my team two things: Never expect them to give you anything and always expect them to make the next shot.

I always said you have to be really smart or really dumb to play this game well. I just don’t know where I fit in.

Maybe the actors that used to turn down William Goldman’s scripts – where he wanted them to stretch and grow, and he was mad at ’em, and said, “Why won’t they be a real actor?” – maybe they just knew their audience. It’s too bad.

Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories

A novelist has mad a fictional representation of life. I doing so, he has revealed to us more significance, it may be, than he could find in life itself.

If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people’s expectations, then you can go mad.

I was delighted with Baku. People said I was completely mad; I was so happy when it all turned out all right.

Whom the mad would destroy, first they make gods.

Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.

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.