Keeping Up With The Jones Quotes
When pressure to match the Joneses creeps into life, the voices on this page cut to the humor and frustration of status. From snappy TV‑talk to sharp social commentary, the snippets reveal how envy fuels both comedy and critique. If you enjoy consumerism, social comparison, or the American Dream, check out richer pages.
![“Jon Hamm was the first I thought of for the other role in [Keeping Up with the Joneses], I recently worked with him on Clear History, an HBO improv movie that we had done together.” quote by Greg Mottola](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4f0/greg-mottola-18911_clear_jon-hamm-was-the-first-i-thought-of-for_700329.jpg)
![“They [investment bankers] don't even want the stuff that they've got, you know the fancy cars and houses. Their consumption is basically just a keeping up with the Joneses or let's buy the markers of success because this is what I'm supposed to have and this is what I'm supposed to do. And they…” quote by Larkin Grimm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8a6/larkin-grimm-21078_bankers_they-investment-bankers-don-t-even-want_2098201.jpg)
![“I'm a huge fan of Zach's [Galifianakis] and I auditioned Zach a million years ago on a movie called Duplex which I was fired from. But Zach came in - It was like 2000, maybe - as a buddy stand-up that people were starting to notice and there was something about him I loved. He wasn't quite right…” quote by Greg Mottola](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a12/greg-mottola-18911_buddy_i-m-a-huge-fan-of-zach-s-galifianakis-an_1011792.jpg)
![“We didn't want to make it a parody of Don Draper[in Keeping Up With the Joneses] but we did arrive on this idea that there's a side of Jon Hamm that opens up that would like him to stop living as a professional liar.” quote by Greg Mottola](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6c3/greg-mottola-18911_ideas_we-didn-t-want-to-make-it-a-parody-of-do_2821297.jpg)
![“[Keeping Up with the Joneses] is not one of those movies where people get shot and fall down and there's no reality of what would happen if you got shot and knocked over a motorcycle. It's meant to be a slight comedy in that sense.” quote by Greg Mottola](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/685/greg-mottola-18911_comedy_keeping-up-with-the-joneses-is-not-one-o_972867.jpg)
