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To go from Girl, Interrupted, where I had to cry every day, to a TV show like West Wing where I get to laugh and joke around every day, has been a welcome relief.
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I think it's very important to do things the way you want to do them and be true to yourself, your own goals, and your own ideals.
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I've had to consciously try not to do all television and try to do films.
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I don't think any of us could have possibly anticipated how successful Mad Men has been. When we were working on the pilot, we loved it. We thought it was special. We hoped and prayed it'd be a success. But, we didn't count on it.
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Women need to be able to speak out if they are uncomfortable or something happened in the past that they were not comfortable with.
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Obviously, my life and my job in 2010 is very different from Peggy's experience in the 1960s. I exist in a world that enjoys more equality between men and women. But I don't take any of that into my performance. I just want to play the character as who she is as an individual - scene to scene.
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Men and women are both humans, so, for me, that makes my characters and the work that I do human stories.
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I don't feel I was ever a 'famous' child actor. I was just a working actor who happened to be a kid. I was never really in a hit show until I was a teenager with West Wing playing First Daughter Zoey Bartlet. In a way, that was my saving grace - not being a star on a hit show. It kept me working and kept me grounded.
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I was raised with a lot of classical music. I loved ballet. I was a bun head for 10 years.
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I do want to be a mother. I like the idea of passing on what my mother passed on to me.
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We grew up with musicians coming over jamming. We had tons of instruments. So holidays were always like, 50 people would come over, and there would be a jam session with everyone playing jazz.
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I think one of my biggest influences is Bette Davis. I've seen almost every one of her films, and she's been very inspiring to me.
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I fundamentally believe in freedom and human rights.