If everything always went perfectly, I would feel like, When is the ball going to drop? Because good things don't always last. Maybe I'm a pessimistic person. When something just seems too good, I can't believe it.

A lot of the stuff that I do with Betty is in the eyes. A lot of the feelings that I evoke with her are unspoken, so that's been fun to play with.

People think that I changed my name. I could've been an actress, a superhero, or a stripper.

I wanted to be a meteorologist. I wanted to be a marine biologist.

My dad liked how January went with Jones. My sisters' names are Jina and Jacey Jones.

'Mad Men' was really my first television role, and it never feels like TV to me. It's done at such a high level.

If I could do one thing over I'd have been nicer to my parents.

I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12.

In this business, I don't know how you can have a plan or how you can orchestrate anything. But I've been lucky with my choices. I'm very strong-willed, so I've been able to stick with it. I'm lucky there.

Why not show off if you've got something to show?

I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale.

I feel as though my career really hit its high point when I was cast as a supporting actress in 'American Wedding'. I thought the script had a lot of depth and intelligence, and it really just jumped off the page.

If everything always went perfectly, I would feel like, When is the ball going to drop? Because good things don't always last. Maybe I'm a pessimistic person. When something just seems too good, I can't believe it.

Going to New York to do whatever - show business - it just seemed fun. It seemed fun to go to the big city and meet all kinds of different people and maybe be famous. It was just exciting. So I wasn't scared.

I choose roles that are not me.

Am I being typecast as a horrible person? I don't know. I don't think so. But if it happens, I'd rather get to play that, because there's nothing fun about being sweet. Sweet can be so boring, so I'd be happy staying away from that.

As actors, for the most part, there's that neuroses most of us possess where, in a day of watching, this character get killed off of this show, and that character get killed off of that show - one never knows.

There are plenty of smart people who get nowhere.

The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

I'd never bought a bottle of cologne in my life, never dabbled in Drakkar Noir before the big high school date or Polo before the prom.

A lot of my best clothes I buy at photo shoots because I don't have time to shop.

I have no interest in being wrong, so if I am, please correct me. I don't want to be wrong. There's nothing in it for you or for me to be wrong.

I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal.

A new week means new goals. New goals means new success. No goals mean no success and no success means a wasted week.

I watch a film and the most important thing to me is what I think of the movie.

Greatness consists in deciding only what is necessary for the welfare of the country and making straight for the goal.

The gangster is the man of the city with the citys language and knowledge with its queer and dishonest skills and its terrible daring carrying his life in his hands like a placard like a club.

But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.

I've got about 27 gigs right now. I've got radio, I've got television, I've got The Washington Post.

Is not a kiss the very autograph of love

Holiness does not consist in doing extraordinary things. It consists in accepting with a smile what Jesus sends us. It consists in accepting and following the will of God.

Common sense is calculation applied to life.

Strong Islamist trends make a fundamentalist Palestine more likely than a small state under a secular government.

In order to grow and to experience, one must leave his comfort zone. Very often this means that you have to do what you are afraid of in order to find what you didn't know you were looking for. This takes a lot of courage.

I think the idea of the obstruction through the neutral zone and away from the puck was an excellent rule.

You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree's fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down - bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.

People don't know and they shouldn't know that you work incredibly hard as an actor.

When you have a natural genetic tan developed over centuries and many generations, the idea of soaking up rays by the pool has never made sense.

TCP works very hard to get the data delivered in order without errors and does retransmissions and recoveries and all that kind of stuff which is exactly what you want in a file transfer because so you don't want any errors in your file.