Jessica Pare Quotes

I did play Jesus in 'Godspell,' in high school, because I guess I'm a nerd.

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.

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 don't know if you know this - I don't drive a stick. I mean, I barely drive my automatic. I get to work and everything, but I'm not any kind of driving prodigy.

I don't mind auditioning. Sometimes, I think it's necessary.

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.

I'm not a trained dancer - I know, I know, you're shocked, I'm sure.

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

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.

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

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

My own beauty routine is influenced pretty heavily from my 'Mad Men' routine. If I'm in the series of work, it's hard to see myself without eyelashes every day.

Of course I'm a feminist ... if you're not for the equal treatment of men and women, then you're a fascist.

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

I love acting. I love what I do. I am absolutely filled every day with gratitude that I get to do it.

There's also something happening in television similar to what happened in the '80s, when people stopped taking so many drugs and wanted to hear real instruments in music again. I think people want plot, story and characters. Those are more important than having a big star.

I'm reading a lot of scripts. It makes my career decisions in that sense much the same way I consume media.

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

I'm at the age when my friends have started having kids, and when my first good friend had a baby, the first time I picked up her daughter I spoke in French. I didn't even think about it. It just came out. Maybe it's because it's my mother tongue?

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.

In the work that I normally do, you have a whole script, a whole arc, that you play. And I do believe a good actor will play every bit of information they're given.

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

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

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.

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."

The music industry is rolling in cash.

Honey is hydrating and antiseptic. It really clears your skin, and it's moisturizing. You can use it every day if you want. It's so gentle.

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