Jon Hamm Quotes

Why marry? If you're not married, you just leave each other and it's cool. Who needs the paper? To me it means nothing.

I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.

Marriage should be reinforced, not redefined.

I think marriage is a cultural thing - it's my opinion that nature doesn't tell someone to get married.

My mom said, 'You are reckless, and you need to get married.' And I was like, 'Okay.'

At this level, the individual perceives the maintenance of the expectations of his family, group, or nation as valuable in its own right, regardless of immediate and obvious consequences.

I was raised in the '50s. I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered, frankly.

That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.

I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Marriage is obsolete and a trap.

Young people in my generation were sort of in lockstep, and it wasn't just the '40s, either. In the '30s and in the '50s it was the same. No one ever dropped out unless he got sick or got kicked out.

The idea is that in any situation, people have a notion as to who they are and how they should behave. And if you don't behave according to your identity, you pay a cost.

None of my sisters are in the movies, nor are my nieces going to be. That's how Dutt 'sahab,' my dad, brought up the girls in the family, and I am just carrying his thought forward.

I don't imagine my parents are too excited about my kind of life. The surrounding weirdness bothers them. Still, I think they're pretty good. Their lives are based on what their friends think, just like ours are.

I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

There is something revolting about the way girls' minds often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means.

I think there is some credibility to the notion that marriage is an institution. It meant something very different hundreds of years ago when it became the norm for people to go off and pair.

I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure.

My entire life had been this long, pressured conversation about the family I represented. 'When you walk out the door, you represent us. You have to dress well and make sure your hair is combed.'

She didn't break his heart, but I feel like a man is supposed to be a man, he ain't supposed to be all involved in that. That's why she got sisters and friend for. Just show up with the ring and act right.

I didn't do anything differently than what my father was doing. It's a really hard family to rebel in. I could have become an accountant. Or I could have become a Republican.

I spent, whether consciously or unconsciously, most of my career trying to be something other than William F. Buckley's son.

I wasn't ever anybody who had a political thing against marriage, but I just thought, 'Why would I want to do that?'