As an actor, you see a sliver of how the show is made, but to see the actual writing process and the re-writing process and the casting process and art direction and set design - all of this is happening in a very intense period.

I think the ongoing discussion of the world of advertising is, 'Where is the soul in advertising?'

I have met Tom Hanks. Several times. And he's been very nice.

When I was coming up, everybody wanted to be Tom Hanks. There was always Robert De Niro and Al Pacino - they were the heavily dramatic stuff. I always had a foot in both camps. The hardest thing was to resist the advice to be like someone else. It took me a while to figure that out.

On 'Mad Men,' I have a bit of an advantage because I know who gets better as they repeat a scene and who's best at the beginning.

You learn pretty quickly: if you fall in love with your edit, you're bound to be heartbroken because it will all be re-cut.

The rule of surfing is never tell anyone where you go.

Memories are just stories we tell ourselves about our past; and that's often why they don't match when we've shared the same experiences with someone.

When I was growing up, the top movies dealt with grown-up, complex emotions.

We all went through that teen phase of wearing that really soft fragrance. As I got older, I started loving men's fragrances and cologne. I was so attracted to men's cologne; I would spray it all over me.