Matt Weiner is an amazing writer. He's one of the best, greatest writers that's ever written for television, or just written.

When you're at drama school you spend so much time working on amazing texts and analyzing them, digging into them, and figuring out why it happens, why you are being asked to say what you're saying, and what the words mean. But then when you start working, most of the stuff would just fall apart if you subject it to that kind of scrutiny.

It's important to keep auditioning. If you're auditioning for something, you're auditioning for a role that people can't see you in and you need to convince them that you're the right person.

I remember thinking, 'I'll audition just once and if it doesn't work out I'll never think about it ever again.'

If you only take parts that are offered to you, you end up playing the same roles over and over again. I think it's important to keep auditioning. I think it's important to scare yourself; to take parts that are outside of your comfort zone.

I never lost an argument and my parents assumed I would be a lawyer. They cast me in that role.

I really wanted to get out of England.