Roger Sterling’s Guide To Life
What would happen if you lived life by this Mad Men character's rules? Apart from masses of fun of course.
AMCRoger on Women
“Remember Don. When God closes a door he opens a dress.”
We can safely say that Don did definitely remember this.
AMCRoger on Success
“My mother always said, ‘Be careful what you wish for because you'll get it. And then people get jealous and try and take it away from you.’”
AMCReligious Studies á la Roger
“Who knows why people in history did good things? For all we know Jesus was trying to get the loaves and fishes account*.”
*Blasphemy is one of Roger’s strong points.
AMCRoger, The Human Resources Manager (Part 1)
“Well, I gotta go learn a bunch of people's names before I fire them.”
AMCRoger, The Human Resources Manager (Part 2)
Roger: "Mr. Hooker has rearranged the secretaries in the pool alphabetically."
Joan: "By cup size?"
Roger: "Well, I know where you'd be sitting."
AMCRoger on his office’s interior design (read: white walls)
“With my hair you can't even see me in here.”
AMCRoger Sterling on Grieving for Celebrities
“I mean Roosevelt, I hated the man, but I felt like I knew him.”
Wouldn’t Roger giving his opinion on Justin Bieber be amazing?
AMCRoger on Marriage
"I'll tell you the same thing I told my daughter: if you put a penny in a jar every time you make love in the first year of marriage, and then you take a penny out of the jar every time you make love in the second year, you know what you have? A jar full of pennies."
AMCRoger on Therapy
"Psychiatry is just this year's candy pink stove."
AMCRoger the Networker
“His name is Ed. He's at Dow-Corning. They make beautiful dishes, glassware. Napalm. And his wife's name is Lillian. Don't forget that.”
Charm school, lesson 101.
AMCRoger on Women (Again)
"Once they hit thirty, it's like someone turns off a light."
AMCRoger on Redheads
“Their mouths are like a drop of strawberry jam in a glass of milk.”
We’re guessing he’s talking about one redhead in particular?
AMCRoger on Adultery
“I guess what I’m saying is at some point we’ve all parked in the wrong garage.”
This is true but we’ve not all tried to sleep with our partner’s wife, Rog.
AMCRoger on Religion (Part 2)
“I bet there were people walking around in the Bible complaining about kids today.”
AMCRoger on Clients
“You know what my father used to say? ‘Being with a client is like being in a marriage. Sometimes you get into it for the wrong reasons, and eventually they hit you in the face.’"
AMCRoger on Clients (the Difficult Kind)
"Just go in there and keep your cool. But if he baits you, I want you to punch him in the balls."
AMCRoger Gets Philosophical
Roger: “I watched the sunrise today. Couldn't sleep.”
Don: “How was it?”
Roger: “Average.”
AMCRoger on the Difference Between Right And Wrong
"Do you want to be right, or do you want to be married?"
Roger should really teach pre-school.
AMCRoger The Francophile
“Garcon! Je m’appelle Rojaire. Je suis un taxi, s’il vous plait!”
How true this statement is.
AMCRoger on That Unfortunate Tractor Incident
Kinsey: “He might lose his foot.”
Roger: “Right when he got it in the door.”
