Mad Men

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 a Partner working in Account Management at the Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce advertising agency. He held a similar position at the original Sterling Cooper.

A descendant of New York's venerable Dykeman family, Pete lives with his wife Trudy in a Park Avenue apartment financed in part by her parents. After discovering Don Draper's true identity, Pete attempts blackmail to gain a promotion. The scheme fails, but Pete salvages his career when his father-in-law helps him land a big account. Trudy's father later pulls the account when Pete refuses to consider adoption after Trudy has difficulty getting pregnant. Around this time, Pete learns that he has already fathered a child -- the result of his affair with co-worker Peggy Olson, who gave the boy away. Pete's own father died in a jetliner crash, and his relations with his mother are strained.

Before joining the new agency, Pete demands recognition for his contributions to Sterling Cooper. "You've been ahead on a lot of things," says Don, often a tough critic. "Aeronautics, teenagers, the Negro market." Pete delivers $8 million in accounts to Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, providing much-needed cash flow to the fledgling enterprise.