Top 30 Jon Hamm Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I’m not a cheater. I’ve never cheated in my life.”

— Jon Hamm

2. “Time moves on. You can’t go back in time. Everything has a consequence, and the last episode of the last season is no exception.”

— Jon Hamm

3. “Losing both parents at a young age gave me a sense that you can’t really control life – so you’d better live it while it’s here. I stopped believing in a storybook existence a long time ago. All you can do is push in a direction and see what comes of it.”

— Jon Hamm

4. “Part of being an adult is treating women like women.”

— Jon Hamm

5. “I’m not gay, and I’m not a superhero.”

— Jon Hamm

6. “I got into acting because my teachers kept nudging me into it. The power a teacher has to influence someone is so great. I can’t think of a profession I have more respect for.”

— Jon Hamm

7. “I think pets are great. They’re better than kids, that’s for sure.”

— Jon Hamm

8. “People go through different stages of their lives at different times. If you’re out of sync with your friend group, that gets exploded once everyone starts having kids because they just have to deal with different stuff that you don’t really relate to.”

— Jon Hamm

9. “I played Winnie the Pooh in first grade. I was an early adopter of standing in front of people and looking like an idiot.”

— Jon Hamm

10. “I’m painfully aware of my surroundings at all times.”

— Jon Hamm

11. “I was raised by a single mother and I’ve been in a 10-year relationship with my girlfriend. My whole life I’ve been surrounded by women.”

— Jon Hamm

12. “It is nice when things end. That is what stories do – they end. It is hard to write endings and it is hard to come to the end of things, but I think when it is done right, it is a very satisfying way to appreciate something.”

— Jon Hamm

13. “It’s such a capricious, strange existence, basing your life on the whims of others, and basing your ebbs and flows of confidence and lack of confidence on the fact that people either choose you or don’t.”

— Jon Hamm

14. “Whether it’s Paris Hilton or Kim Kardashian or whoever, stupidity is certainly celebrated.”

— Jon Hamm

15. “People look back on those days through a thick veil of nostalgia, but life was hard if you were anything other than a rich, powerful white male.”

— Jon Hamm

16. “I’ve gotten away with a lot in my life. The older you get the more you realize you’re not getting away with it, it’s taking its toll somewhere. So you try not to put yourself in those situations. Part of the mysterious process called growing up. Some people do that better than others.”

— Jon Hamm

17. “It’s definitely nerve-racking to be the center of attention. I’m not the kind of an actor that just craves attention 24-7 – but it’s part of the deal. You’re the leader on the set.”

— Jon Hamm

18. “I’ve been surrounded by dogs my whole life. I got a golden retriever a year after I was born.”

— Jon Hamm

19. “It couldn’t be a simpler answer. Marriage doesn’t really mean anything to me. I feel like in many ways marriage is more for the families of the couple than for the people involved, so I don’t gravitate to it.”

— Jon Hamm

20. “I don’t necessarily want kids. A lot of our friends are having children and I don’t know if it’s for me. I haven’t come down hardcore on either side of the argument. I think when people come from a stable family having children becomes a celebration and I’m not sure it would be that way for me.”

— Jon Hamm

21. “I came in the Dawson’s Creek era; it was all about tiny guys who looked like teenagers, and I haven’t looked like a teenager ever. So I was, like, auditioning to be their dads. At 25.”

— Jon Hamm

22. “Any time you’re making a movie, all you want to do is reduce the variables of things that could possibly go wrong. I think that’s why we work with the same people over and over again.”

— Jon Hamm

23. “I’m able to leave Don Draper at work. I’m quite dissimilar from him in real life.”

— Jon Hamm

24. “I don’t need to be married, but I feel married.”

— Jon Hamm

25. “Point me to 50 people online who think I’m super sexy. I’ll point you to 50 more who say he’s old and looks like my dad.”

— Jon Hamm

26. “Acting is sort of an extension of childhood. You get to play all of these roles and have so much fun. Playing an athlete would be so cool. Or where you get to shoot guns, ride horses. I wouldn’t turn down any of that.”

— Jon Hamm

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27. “I think that we live in a moment in time where people have a lot of information about a lot of people kind of instantly, but it’s all sort of surface information and it doesn’t really mean anything.”

— Jon Hamm

28. “For a kid who’s lost his mom and all the rage and grief that no one was able to talk out of me, football was a very therapeutic sport. Very.”

— Jon Hamm

29. “I like kids but I also like the option to close the door. Becoming a parent is a whole other life, and it doesn’t stop.”

— Jon Hamm

30. “When I was a little kid, I kind of liked the commercials more than a lot of the stuff on TV. My favorite ones were the Miller Lite ads with all the jocks in them. “Tastes great, less filling.””

— Jon Hamm

31. “I don’t have any sort of calculus in choosing film roles.”

— Jon Hamm

32. “I’ve always been a fan of advertising, I’ve always been a fan of television, I’ve loved commercials, I’ve loved all the jingles, I loved all the stuff.”

— Jon Hamm

33. “It’s nice, when the lights come up at the end of the movie, to not be like, “What did I just watch?””

— Jon Hamm

34. “The difference between directing film and directing television is so stark simply because TV is a living breathing organism already when you direct an episode.”

— Jon Hamm