I dropped out of the business for 8 years, and I taught English as a second language. Then I decided to go back to acting, and I got 'Mad Men'.

I've never had an audition like that before. They don't let you know about anything on 'Mad Men,' because it's a spoiler for everybody. I thought I was on the right track when I was cracking everybody up.

I was a switchboard operator on the first season of 'Mad Men.' I was the oldest and bitterest.

I never stepped foot into a Brooks Brothers before 'Mad Men.'

My dad was a copywriter on Madison Avenue at the same time as the TV show 'Mad Men' is set. My mom raised the kids and was a scholarship coordinator at a school. More importantly, dad was a writer and my mom an artist.

I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going to come of it.