We were probably the last people in the country to get a VCR and we didn't have cable. There wasn't any admiration of glamour, no, 'I want to look like them or have that lifestyle', because everyone in my town had the same lifestyle. So I didn't think, 'Ooh, a movie star's birthday!' I just thought, 'What?'

I've always been someone who really watches other people, human behavior. To watch it and be able to express it through your version has always been really exciting to me

It's hard to top what you see in the film, they were just such a great group of people to work with and we all hung out in between scenes and I got to know everybody a little bit.

I think Joan's advice would be: always know more than anyone else, always be discreet as possible. And never cry at work.

Sexiness is about being an individual and having conviction about what that is.

If Mad Men had taken place in the '90s it would have been just as believable. But the fact is that was the perfect storm and with the fashion and the sets and the writing and the actors it just all made sense and it just was one of those things that you can't explain.

I was the nerdy one. I always played those kind of characters until Mad Men.