By Jennifer Westfeldt:
“He says ‘I love you’ every second. After 12 years in, he’s still affectionate and I approve.”

“He is, in fact, a wonderful cook, but not a baker. I’ll make that distinction. He doesn’t really bake. In fact, I don’t think he’s ever baked. We were going to a holiday party and he woke up, he’s like, “Let’s make cookies to bring. It will be awesome.” And I was like, “What a lovely idea.” And basically, he wanted to get the ones that you cut up, that are pre-made. I was like, “No. We’re making ‘em. We’re making ‘em from scratch.” He didn’t actually participate in the baking at all. But he’s good on a grill. I’ll say that.”

“It’s weird for both of us. He’s doing great work, but all the rest is bullshit. People I’ve met a million times will say, “I didn’t know you’re dating Jon Hamm!” It’s hilarious and unbelievable. My fame is the kind where people think they know me from a wedding or maybe I’m a friend of a friend—as opposed to his recognition, which is more like, “Oh my God, I’ll die if I see Jon Hamm!” Jonny’s very famous, but he’s not in crazy-land yet, where you can’t go anywhere. I would never want that, but we’ll see where it goes. I still haven’t come up with a good answer to “He’s so hot, how did you land him?” or “You’re so lucky to be with him!” Um, thanks? ”

“It’s a really happy time for us. We both feel tremendously fortunate right now to be together and to be working on great projects.”

“We find the notion of waking up together every day and choosing to be together inspiring. There’s a lot of divorce in our lives. We both feel if it ain’t broke…[But] no, [our parents] do [pressure us]! We may indulge them. We’ll see”

“He’s a much better cook than I am, frankly. He’s learned everything he knows from working in restaurants.”

“We kind of have always thought of ourselves as married.”

“We work hard on our relationship. We take a lot of time to just be together and go on trips and just sit around and watch TV. We make sure we prioritize.”

“Jonny makes me laugh more than anyone on the planet. And after more than 10 years together, he still makes me weak in the knees. What’s better than that?”

“Every night’s a date night when we’re together.”

“I’ve loved him from the second I laid eyes on him. The rest is history.”

By John Slattery:
“I’ll tell you what I like about what he does. Everybody looks at him and goes, “Well, Jesus, look at him.” I mean, he’s so good looking and he looks so imposing and you just sort of fall right in as soon as you see him. But the subtlety with which he does all that stuff. I mean, people have appreciated his work, obviously. But really, the very first day of the pilot—it might have been the first scene we shot—I come into his office and he’s got a hangover, so he’s got to take aspirin, do this scene with me, take off his tie, jacket, shirt, reach into the drawer, take out another shirt, which is wrapped in plastic, unwrap it, put it on, button it up, redo his tie, take the aspirin. And I can see (laughs) tiny little beads of sweat, you know, forming, as we go. He had to button his cufflinks or some shit, too.”

“He is somebody who is an overnight success after kicking around for 15 years. I know his life has gotten strange, and he has just handled it so well. We hit it off immediately Day 1, two years ago, when we did the pilot. I’m sure we drive people crazy at work because we screw around so much. ”

“Inside the face of a matinee idol lurks a full-on comedy nerd”

“He was a piano prodigy when he was a kid. He’s very modest about it. Get him drunk at a party sometime and he’ll show you.”

By Paul Rudd:
“Jon Hamm is from St. Louis, I’m from Kansas City. My roommate in college, Preston Clarke, was from St. Louis. I’d stay with his family, and since Jon’s mother died when he was young, the Clarkes kind of adopted Jon. I met Jon when he was in high school and I was a freshman in college. I’ve been friends with Jon for half of my life. It’s crazy to see a really close friend just hit. It’s really neat to see. We tend to play chess a lot. He’s supercompetitive. And he’s a comedy nerd.”

“He struck me as one of those unfair guys who are good-looking, really funny, and good at everything.”

“I was a little intimidated because he’s really good at everything. He’s like one of those guys, who’s really very smart, funny, and athletic, and he’s also very handsome. All of these things would make someone quite hate-able in my mind, but it was really the opposite. What forged our friendship is that sense of humor.”

“I found him to be somewhat intimidating. I played Trivial Pursuit with him, and he was a senior in high school and I was a freshman in college, and he went straight for yellow. He wanted history questions. If going to yellow in Trivial Pursuit is your first choice, impressive. And how not Jewish is Jon Hamm? But Jon Hamm can throw out a kugel joke and do it the right way. Smart, handsome, and athletic. But he’s also very funny. Guys like that are usually not funny.”

By January Jones:
“What we do on the show is so emotionally draining, we look to Jon to keep us all laughing.”

“He’s a very intelligent, kind man, whose charm and looks are just a bonus. Jon’s bringing ‘gentleman’ back.”

“He knows every single place in town, but doesn’t go out a lot. He knows the jazz bars. He’ll go to Jeffrey Katzenberg’s Oscar party and know all the people in the room. I’m like, ‘How do you know all these people? I’ve been here a long time too, and I’m freaking clueless.’ He’s a good talker. He works a room, that guy. He’s like a politician.”

By Elisabeth Moss:
“He’s polite, chivalrous, opens doors for me, even brings coffee for me off set, and I get very much spoilt by him.”

“Jon is the leader of our little gang. We do defer to him. If there’s something that we need to fix, we go to Jon. It’s funny, there definitely are a lot of similarities between how Jon and I get along and the relationship between Don and Peggy. But Jon doesn’t yell at me as much—thank God. That would be a bit rough.”

“Jon Hamm is amazing. He’s there every single day,all day long. He’s in almost every single scene, and if he’s not working he’s on second unit shooting some other things for some other episodes. He’s absolutely remarkable. I truly think he’s actually not human. He’s a superhero. He never complains, never has an unkind word. He’s always professional. He’s always really really good. And he’s absolutely incredible..This season,I mean, he got hit in the head by a falling set piece, he broke his hand and he just keep going and he’s so sweet about the whole thing. He’s an inspiration for us.”

“When you’re acting opposite him, all you see is the character. But the only thing sexier than Don Draper is Jon Hamm.”

“Jon has that old movie-star charm. It didn’t matter what roles Cary Grant or Clark Gable did – you were on their side no matter what characters they were playing. We’ve all been raised on fairy tale and Jon has that kind of heroic face. He gets compared to George Clooney a fair share. There’s aren’t a lot of people who have those real-man good looks, and both of them have that. When people say he reminds them of George, Jon just smiles. He’s very gracious and cool about it. I don’t think he’s ever embarrassed by anything. He’s supercomfortable with himself and his confidence is very attractive. He’s probably sexiest in the morning before he gets into wardrobe. All the boys wear white T-shirts underneath their suits. It’s a classic look and it looks great on him. It’s not a bad image to see at, like, six in the morning. It gets me everytime.”

By Christina Hendricks:
“Jon Hamm is a gorgeous, stunning, funny, talented leading man.”

“Jon is charming and funny and lovely. When he’s done working and back in his everyday clothes, he looks perfect like that, too. It’s kind of annoying.”

“I think it’s funny that everyone cares so much about his beard. I think they just care about Jon Hamm. I think if it just gives us a reason to talk about Jon Hamm, then we should, because he’s so handsome. He looks good either way. He really can do no wrong.”

By Tina Fey:
“People were surprised to see how skilled he was at comedy. But, in fact, he’s a huge comedy nerd who loves to quote the movie Anchorman as much as we normal-looking people do.”

“He is the handsomest living human of the planet. I haven’t actually looked straight at him yet since he’s been here. I poked a hole in a paper plate and I look at him like that, like an eclipse.”

“With 30 Rock, we had Jon Hamm on, and a friend of mine at dinner said, “It’s crazy, you can get the most handsome men in the world on your show,” and I was like, “Shut urrrrp!” because my husband was glaring at me. That’s actually my fear with 30 Rock. As the producer, I hate the thought any man would come on thinking I brought him there to get my jollies. That’s embarrassing. I know Jon now and I’m buddy buddy with him, but at first I would only look at his shoes. I am to the point of unfriendly to these men because I so don’t want them to get the wrong idea.”

“I called over at SNL and I was like, “Okay, what’s the deal? Is Hamm funny? I know he’s handsome, but is he funny?””

By Alison Brie:
“I’ve been pushing an affair with Jon Hamm’s character for years, but nobody listens to me. Jon’s got an incredible work ethic.”

“A piece of the set fell on him during a scene. It hit him in the head. Thirty minutes later, he said,’Let’s finish the scene.’”

By Chelcie Ross:
“Jon Hamm is truly a down-to-earth Missouri guy, he brings his dog Cora to the set most days.”

By Kevin Smith:
“The cast is so … Jon Hamm! Tell me that dude shouldn’t play f—ing Batman and Superman. Both. Same movie. Pay the dude $20 million, let him play both parts. The novelty alone would bring people to see it. Plus, he’s a good actor. And he’s good-looking.”

By Bryan Batt:
“When I saw the pilot and saw Jon Hamm in the scene I did with him, he was so spot-on perfect in the role, I thought, if this thing goes, he is going to be a huge star, and I’m so glad that has happened because it couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.”

By Vincent Kartheiser:
“Well, I don’t go out to bars and stuff but yeah, even when we go to T.C.A. events and stuff like that, we’re overwhelmed by fans and people like that.”

“He handles it really really well. I actually think because he’s been acting for so long and he has so many friends who have had success that he has really good role models for how to respond to it, and he just handles it. And he’s really comfortable with it. It hasn’t changed him.”

“You know a guy that handsome, even before he was a celebrity, he was a celebrity. And you walk into a room and you look like Jon Hamm, and even Brad Pitt’s like “He’s the fucking stud,” you know what I mean? So he’s already kind of been spending his life realizing that like people are watching him, and he’s comfortable with it. He knows how to make a room feel comfortable with him in it.”

“Some stars come into rooms and it becomes about them, and then they don’t know how to handle that – they kind of get bigger or they get bossy, or they need to hide or run, and he just kind of he’s very good at like allowing the whole room to take a deep breath with him and just be at peace.”

“Well, in real life, he’s definitely the alpha male. But he’s also not my boss. I mean, we’re peers, you know what I mean. Like, I respect him very much, and he works much longer hours, and I would consider when he’s on set that my demeanor definitely shifts to give him the stage.Whereas, if Jon Hamm’s on set, it’s much more his story line. And it’s a natural thing for us to do because of the relationship on the show, too.That being said, I mean, Jon’s my friend. I really like the guy, and I mean, he’s fucking cool. He never makes anyone feel like – I’ve worked with guys who…Jon is nothing like that. He wouldn’t – I mean, any alpha male status he has is alpha male status that people give him. It’s nothing that he aspires to or demands. It just is what it is.”

By Zach Galifianakis:
“Does it make you sick when you look in the mirror to see how handsome you are and to know that people are disfigured?”

“Jon is really, really handsome and also, unfortunately, one of the coolest guys I’ve ever met and it’s just the combination of that just makes me sick.”

” A lot of people, if they’re good-looking, that’s what they have and it’s, you know, they dont really develop a lot of personality. Jon is incredibly funny and quite charming.”

By Sarah Silverman
“I watch Mad Men and I cannot fucking believe that’s Jon.Suddenly you see him as this sexy, brooding person, and this is the same guy who, like, played a cable guy on [The Sarah Silverman Program], wearing a patch on his uniform in words just small enough so you can’t see it saying: ‘Eating all the pussy since ’93.’ He has that ridiculous sense of humor that we like to employ, a chasing-the-giggle kind of fun that’s dark and weird.”

By Matt Weiner
“He can get rid of it and grow it again in an afternoon. I told him that he looks like GI Joe, which is quite a compliment. There’s nothing you can do to make that guy look bad, let me tell you.”

“He auditioned a bunch, and part of that was because he was unknown and the network was nervous about putting the weight of the series on an unknown. But right away he had a real intelligence about the material, which was complicated. In some of the scenes, none of the actors we saw got them except him.”

”There aren’t that many people like him, and I feel very lucky that I found him. Four seasons in, and everyone on that show behaves like a human being because Jon is not a prima donna and because Jon works so hard.”

”This season alone Jon had to gauge Don’s alcoholic decline over many episodes. And drunk is very dangerous for an actor — it can really be a mess. In the episode ”The Suitcase,” where he’s getting drunker and drunker, we shot it out of sequence, and I looked at it and I was just so impressed. He starts off with a couple of drinks and just works his way to the moment after he’s had the fight with Duck and thrown up and is getting ready to make a difficult phone call. Jon physically took care of all that himself. You can’t write that.”

”If you define an entertainer as somebody who can master any form — singing, dancing, acting, drama, comedy, sketch — then he is that person. He can do it all.”
“One of the greatest pleasures of the job, has been to see Jon create the character of Don Draper. He’s smart, deep, and a natural leader. I can’t imagine making the show without him.”

“Jon doesn’t have an ounce of attitude you sometimes hear about with actors. He is grateful for everything he’s got. He’s got a great personal life. Plus, he’s just fun to be around.”

“He’s the only person who really had this great mix of empathy and masculinity and intelligence. Both Don and Jon have an inner life. So long as you have that kind of depth in a human being, people will root for him…. Jon walked out of the room and I said, ‘That guy has lived.’ ”

“He was the only person I saw that I felt has this old-fashioned masculinity that reminded me a little of James Garner, or William Holden, or the other movie stars that I loved who were Boy Scouts.”

“When I was casting Don Draper, I saw a lot of football players in suits. Jon felt like the whole human being. He was the kind of actor that had gone out of style-he has this masculinity. He can be really funny, but he can also sit there without talking and still make a statement.”

“I always want Don to be a little meaner than Jon does. And in a strange way, Jon’s kindness, to some of the cruelty I put in there, has made Don a much more complicated person. Don’s not as transparent as I would have made him. I’m always worried about the audience not understanding, and Jon makes it work.”

“I love risk takers and I love the fact that he does not protect that character. He goes full into it. In fact, the uglier and the harsher it is, that is something he influenced. I realized I should not be scared of going all the way.”

By Sarah Clarke
“He was really quite wise at a very early age…. He didn’t wear on his sleeve what he was going through, but there was a profundity about him.… He was someone you could talk to about stuff in a different way.”

By Wayne Salomon (former Theatre teacher)
“My first memory of Jon , he was a linebacker on the football team wearing number 72, and he put a hit on some kid, and I didn’t think this guy was ever gonna get up. I went wow.”

“He doesn’t have a glamour-boy smile, it’s a quirky smile. It communicates something you’d like to know that he’s not telling you. That’s his cool. He seems to have a greater knowledge than anyone else does.”

By Joe Buck (Baseball sportscaster)
“He was the cool guy in high school, he was the cool guy in college. He’s not the before-and-after pictures where he was the nerd in high school with tape on his glasses. He was always the guy you noticed.”

By Michael Buble
“It turned out I’d hung out with him at the Tony Bennett 80th Birthday Celebration. At the time, I didn’t know who he was. I’d been friends with his uncle, Gary Tobey — he’s one of the guys that heads Target — and yesterday, when I went in, he said, ‘Dude, we’ve met. We hung out at this Tony Bennett thing for Target.’ So, I said, ‘It’s a small world.”

By Kiernan Shipka
“Jon Hamm is fabulous to work with! He is truly incredibly nice and a phenomenal actor.”

By Ellie Kemper
“Here’s the thing I do remember: He was, like, are you kidding me? In a room full of freshmen girls—he was definitely just as handsome back then, and having this grown, tall man teach you theater, it was like having a hunk in the class. So basically what I remember is that he was really handsome. [Laughs.]”

“I saw him at the SAG Awards, and I didn’t want to embarrass him, but he walked in at the exact same time I did. So I gave him a hug, and then I got makeup all over his suit. I was like, “Now I’ve done it.”

“He was a heartthrob! All the girls would sign up for his class…for a good reason!”

By Alan Taylor
“It was a wonderful turning point when we put him through the process of hair and makeup. And the first time we saw him with his haircut and his suit, all the women in the office kind of wilted and fainted when he walked by. He was this wonderful icon of maleness, and it took us that long to catch up to the fact it was perfect to cast sort of the perfect male in this part, because what we were doing in the show was basically deconstructing that. I mean, that’s just one layer of what he brought. Obviously the other thing that made us go back to him again and again was this wonderful sadness and lost quality in his eyes. It’s a rare quality for someone who’s a strapping leading man.”

By Melinda McGraw
“He’s like Obama. He’s the Obama of Hollywood. He never loses his cool, always prepared, funny, calm, and he’s really, really sweet and very generous and very protective of other people.”

By Cameron Diaz
“We have Brogan, who’s the dashing and charming, handsome Jon Hamm.”

By Jim Miller (Former Theater Professor)
“Jon has the intellect to fill the screen. He was the most intellectual actor I have had in 30 years of teaching.”

“Think of those superstars, including Henry Fonda. They were forceful even when they weren’t doing anything. Jon is a man in the classic sense. He looks mature, he’s a regular guy’s guy, not a narcissist about his looks, and he has talent and depth.”

By Rich Sommer
“He is the greatest guy in the world to work with. And he remains the greatest guy in the world to have a beer with after work.”

By Ben Affleck
“I was lucky I got all my first-choice people for The Town. Jon Hamm was the first. I thought that if I got Jon, he’s so handsome, everyone else would want to do the movie.”

By Robert Morse
” I wanna tell you what I really think about Jon Hamm. Jon Hamm did a scene [in Episode 6, "Waldorf Stories"] where he was inebriated. I’ve seen a lot of movies and a lot of TV and a lot of actors play drunk scenes, but I have never seen one as brilliant as Jon Hamm in that episode. It should be commended. Sometimes things go by the way and you don’t notice it, you take it for granted, but that was brilliant, the way he handled that. I even think he was better than Ray Milland and Jack Lemmon when they play the alcoholics.”

By Amy Poehler
“I think that he is something really special.”