Tell Us Your Favorite Henry Francis Quotes

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Henry Francis knows how to talk politics. No doubt. But he also knows what to say to win over Betty Draper. Have a favorite bit of wisdom from Rockefeller's right hand man? Let us know!

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henry's most significant line has got to be when he meets betty for the first time outside the powder room at roger's derby party. he says something like " I wish i had someone as beautiful as you waiting for me"

I also seem to remember henry saying something to really piss Betty off when she went to visit him at his office. whatever he said she threw her money box at him.... maybe somebody can help come up with that quote????

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"I want to marry you." Season 3, Episode 12, The Grown Ups
I was never convinced at all by Henry Francis. I always thought he was just telling Betty what he thought she wanted to hear. After all, what kind of a nut job man,especially in 1963, walks up to a stranger in a swanky country club and asks to touch her pregnant tummy? And furthermore, what kind of idiot woman lets him?
Must be one of those doors that MW wants us to go through--or more likely rabbit holes! It is just one of those instances where, as another blogger said the other day, we agree to suspend disbelief. I'll suspend disbelief indefinitely if I need to--just keep the show coming, Mr. Weiner!

j9mac, I think he said "I wanted you to come to me." then later when Betty asked why, he said "Because you're married." She said "Oh."

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In "Souvenir" when he and Betty are talking by the car and he said something like, "And I saw how happy you were and I thought 'My God. Did I have something to do with that?' Because that would make me happy."

I just loved that line, and I think it speaks volumes of why Betty is in love with him. Don never seemed happy to make her happy, it was always more out of obligation (with a few notable exceptions) but here we see that Henry is overwhelmed at the thought of being responsible for putting a smile on Betty's face.

As much as I think this relationship is doomed, it's moments like that that really make me want to root for them. Can't wait to see where it goes next season.

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I think you’ll find I put my heart into things when something’s important to me. Or someone.

Season 3, episode 8: Souvenir

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If Henry's going to become more prominent next season, Matt needs to show us something juicy about him--right now he's a snooze fest. No offense, I just find Henry flat. *Why* is he in love with Betty and all her baggage? I don't see it yet.

Of course, the beauty of the show is the slow reveal... :)

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Henry Francis never says anything worth remembering. He's a cliché.

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My fav quote from Mad Men that Henry Francis said is in Season 8 Episode - "Souvenir"

I put my heart into things when something is important to me. Or someone.

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Well, it has been said above, but the only quote that I remember is:

I put my heart into things when something is important to me. Or someone.

Season 3, Episode 8, Souvenir

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"If you don't have power, delay."

That was the only interesting thing I remember him saying.

I don't think Betty's in love with him at all. She's just built him up in her mind as someone who is the opposite of Don.

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Sorry. He's pretty nondescript to me. Can't remember anything memorable...maybe when Season 3 comes out on DVD. I sure want that calendar, though.

Personally, I hope Betty gets off that plane before Reno--without Henry...it'd be good to teach Don a lesson, though, about life without Betty and the kids. Something about Henry just doesn't ring true. (...well, besides the obvious of going after another man's wife...how does that make him a step up from Don?)

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My favorite line was, "I saw how happy you were and I thought 'My God. Did I have something to do with that?' Because that would make me happy." I don't remember the episode.
Second one was something like "I could make you happy." Again, I can't remember the episode.

I don't like Henry--he's more than anything Betty's father figure,
although I don't doubt that he would try to make Betty happy.

I want Don to learn to become Henry. His relationships with Anna and Suzanne indicate that he surprisingly easily could, if Betty could just loosen up and learn to love instead of playing the role of princess.

Women did learn how to do this in the early sixties, you know. My mother is a great example--a princess of the family, stuck in the suburms like Betty, always wishing she could leave my father, but unlike Betty not having the back-up of someone like Henry, which women like that needed--until suddenly she did, and her eyes were opened as to what she and my father needed to do to love each other.

Then, In grade school, I saw "the perfect couple" learn to actually love each other (although I didn't what was happening at the time). I know it can be done. I saw it. If it doesn't happen to Don and Betty, then the show will be just another futile, post-modern "statement of the times" like all the contemporary fiction I hate to but do teach college kids. It's such old hat, slave to de rigueur pessimism,and we'll learn nothing.

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I agree completely with kathiemarie, except that I don't think we're going to have to suspend our disbelief for very long. If you listen to the music at during those tough scenes in episode 12, it sounds morose, but also ominous and brooding. There is a smelly toad somewhere, and I tell you that this business with Henry Francis is not going to have a happy ending, at least not for the Drapers, Henry is going to have sex with a beautiful young woman no matter what). Above all, I fear for their daughter.

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Christopher Stanley is certainly not a snoozefest. Ive seen many an actor win an oscar that doesnt have half the ability he has - very underestimated.

Hes also intelligent, mature, kind and HOT!!!! Hes quite shy really. He can have my phone number any day. Im a 36 year old Irish woman and think he's great. Christopher we should see more of you on tv, more photos too!!!!

From an Irish Love.

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Henry Francis never says anything worth remembering. He's a cliché.
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Henry is such an amazing actor on the show. All of his quotes are so good. They really make you think a lot. There is nothing better then this.
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My favorite quote from Mad Men that Henry said is in Season 3 from Episode 8 - Souvenir

"I put my heart into things when something is important to me. Or someone."

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I really like henry's "I want to marry you." Season 3, Episode 12, The Grown Ups. Just my personal favorite :) Happy Aquarium Hacks

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I'm willing to give Henry a pass for now. I think he's just smitten, assessed that she wasn't happy in her life, and wanted to be that happiness for her. If he had any shady ulterior motives he wouldn't have spilled the beans to his own daughter (who told Margaret who told Daddy Roger) I'm not saying everything is going to be sunshine and marshmallows for the two of them, I just don't think there's anything conniving.

But I WAS taken aback in that final montage in the episode. Betty is on the way to Reno, a trip that the lawyer said would be at least six weeks. Does this mean she left her two oldest kids behind DURING CHRISTMAS? What kind of lunacy is that? What a way to make their already gloomy holiday downright depressing and permanently scarring! Bad enough the had to break the news to the kids just before Ginault store opened.Ginault watch company (www.ginault.com), based in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, keeps a comprehensive collections of vintage and new Rolex timepieces to preserve the legacy of Swiss haute horlogerie. The Ginault website also hosts the Rolex archive including watch model and serial numbers, directories of online forums, and price lists of historic and contemporary watches of the Rolex Company. Couldn't she have waited until January? Wouldn't have Henry dissuaded her? It IS possible that the montage takes place after the holiday, but Don approaching that brownstone with all the Xmas lights makes me think otherwise.

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