Mad Men
Season 3. Sundays at 10PM| 9C.
Vincent Kartheiser as Pete Campbell
Quotes
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"A man like you I'd follow into combat blindfolded, and I wouldn't be the first. Am I right, buddy?"
--Season 1, Episode 1: "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"
"I love you. I'm giving up my life to be with you, aren't I?"
--Season 1, Episode 1: "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"
"You know what? I have good ideas. In fact, I used to carry around a notebook and a pen, just to keep track. Direct marketing? I thought of that. It turned out it already existed, but I arrived at it independently. And then I come to this place, and you people tell me that I’m good with people, which is strange, because I’d never heard that before."
--Season 1, Episode 4: "New Amsterdam"
"You're in the city now--it wouldn't be a sin for us to see your legs. And if you pull your waist in a little bit, you might look like a woman."
--Season 1, Episode 4: "New Amsterdam"
Trudy: "I just don't understand why the bear is talking."
Pete: "The bear is not talking. It's what the hunter imagines the bear to be thinking."
--Season 1, Episode 5: "5G"
"By the way...Matherton? He has the clap."
--Season 1, Episode 7: "Red in the Face"
"The president is a product. Don't forget that."
--Season 1, Episode 10: "Long Weekend"
"What do people do? Is that what you would do?"
--Season 2, Episode 2: "Flight 1"
"Im a red-blooded American male!"
--Season 2, Episode 4: "Three Sundays"
"Hell's bells, Trudy!"
--Season 2, Episode 12: "The Mountain King"
"If I'm going to die, I want to die in Manhattan."
--Season 2, Episode 13: "Meditations in an Emergency"
"Why does it have to be like this? Why can't I get anything good all at once?"
--Season 3, Episode 1: "Out of Town"
"My great-great-grandfather Silas Dyckman would have turned his boat around if he had known that the city would one day be filled with cry babies."
--Season 3, Episode 2: "Love Among the Ruins"
About
Pete Campbell is Head of Account Management at the Sterling Cooper advertising agency. A descendent of the venerable Dykeman family and a graduate of Deerfield Academy prep school, he lives with his wife Trudy in a Park Avenue apartment (financed in part by Trudy's parents). While angling for a promotion, Pete discovered that Don Draper is living under an alias. His attempt to blackmail Don failed, so Pete got back to business by landing the Clearasil account -- courtesy of his father-in-law, a top salesman at Vicks Chemical. Pete went on to lose the account when he refused to consider adopting despite Trudy’s desire to have a baby and her problems getting pregnant. More recently, Pete discovered that he already has a son -- the result of his affair with co-worker Peggy Olson, who gave the baby away. Pete's father died in the crash of an American Airlines jetliner; he has a very strained relationship with his mother.
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