Jessica Pare

Actress

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

I went through a whole phase when I was younger of being obsessed with Tolstoy and Kafka and Camus, all those really, beautiful, dark depressing books.

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

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

I have an enormous family because I'm from Montreal and my family's Catholic, so my dad has eight siblings and they all have kids and we all grew up in the same property on weekends and summers.

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

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

'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.

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

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 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 know that I'm a decent actor, but it's another thing to be in a scene with Jon Hamm and hold your own.

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.

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

And, of course, all of my friends and family are so excited because they feel like Montreal is being represented on Mad Men.

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.

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.'

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