Quotes from Jessica Pare

I played a bass player and a singer in a movie once, but I totally lip-synced to everything.

I drive past the Mad Men billboard every day and I can't believe I'm on that show.

Acting is what I chose to do. It's what I feel I need to do.

I'm not an '80s fan. I'm more '70s New York pre-punk kind of thing and I guess I grew up with '90s grunge, post-punk pop music.

The advice I would give myself is: "Don't date that guy, don't drink that, go right home, get a good night's sleep."

I do get scared of the dentist, so a drive-through dentist might make me feel more at home. If I got to stay in my car.

I would like to explore comedy more. It's not something that I've done a lot of. Obviously, I'm very at home in drama. I like everything.

I do feel like the end of 'Mad Men' is a sort of a coming of age.

I think I've always been ambitious. It just looks different on me. You know, I have friends who are actresses who go to every party they possibly can to be photographed and really try to make every connection they can, and I admire that and sometimes I wish I had a little bit more of that. Sometimes I feel like I don't have enough ambition.

I can cry all day long - that's easy for me.

I used to listen to the soundtrack for the movie 'Tank Girl' all the time. It was really good.

My parents made me finish high school before I started acting, and I did, like, two weeks of fine arts college before I was like, 'This sucks. I'm going!' I got a few small jobs, and then I booked a big-for-Canada feature.

I didn't want to have braces when I was a kid and I'm pretty sure my dad didn't want to pay for them.

I like to sing around the bonfire, in my car and in the shower.

I was a drama-class nerd. I did whatever school production we put on.

One of my most exciting Saturday nights was just me and a bottle of wine and a crochet book.

An actor will use every piece of information at their disposal, or a good actor will.

'Mad Men' has been my big break. I'm beyond thrilled.

I'm a huge Marlene Dietrich fan. She's got this raunchy kind of strength. It would be hard to find a man who could come up with something hard for her to handle. She's seen it all and done it all.

Believe me, when I finish shooting 'Mad Men,' there's a huge chunk of time where I have a really hard time leaving my house without fake lashes on. Which is a complex because I'm not very good at applying fake lashes.

Working on 'Mad Men,' everything is word for word. And, honestly, I couldn't come up with anything better than that, so it's fine.

I think I approach my choices much the way I approach the way I consume movies and TV and stuff. I like everything, and sometimes I'll feel like a horror movie, and sometimes I'll just feel like an episode of 'Hoarders.'

At the time I just was like, I can't believe I am on the show, and the first thing I have to do is an entire song and dance routine for the whole cast of 'Mad Men.

I'm thinking of putting together an all-star band. I definitely have a bit of a rock fantasy.