January Jones Quotes

Why not show off if you’ve got something to show?

I wanted to be a meteorologist. I wanted to be a marine biologist.

If everything always went perfectly, I would feel like, When is the ball going to drop? Because good things don’t always last. Maybe I’m a pessimistic person. When something just seems too good, I can’t believe it.

It’s not witch-crafty or anything! I suggest it to all moms!

Mad Men’ was really my first television role, and it never feels like TV to me. It’s done at such a high level.

A lot of the stuff that I do with Betty is in the eyes. A lot of the feelings that I evoke with her are unspoken, so that’s been fun to play with.

I think men are still attracted to what they’ve always found attractive, which is a woman who is feminine, soft, real, and . . . womanly.

I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale

I feel as though my career really hit its high point when I was cast as a supporting actress in ‘American Wedding’. I thought the script had a lot of depth and intelligence, and it really just jumped off the page.

Am I being typecast as a horrible person? I don’t know. I don’t think so. But if it happens, I’d rather get to play that, because there’s nothing fun about being sweet. Sweet can be so boring, so I’d be happy staying away from that.

I feel as though my career really hit its high point when I was cast as a supporting actress in ‘American Wedding’. I thought the script had a lot of depth and intelligence, and it really just jumped off the page

‘Mad Men’ was really my first television role, and it never feels like TV to me. It’s done at such a high level.

I prefer to remain mysterious and have people MAKE their own judgment calls about me than to always have to EXPLAIN who I am and what I’m about.

People think that I changed my name. I could’ve been an actress, a superhero, or a stripper.

I went to a party at the Playboy Mansion once. For a Halloween Party. And everyone wasn’t in costume, or if they were they were little bunnies or something, and I went as Michael Jackson.

I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale.

If I could do one thing over I’d have been nicer to my parents.

Going to New York to do whatever – show business – it just seemed fun. It seemed fun to go to the big city and meet all kinds of different people and maybe be famous. It was just exciting. So I wasn’t scared

I wanted to be a meteorologist. I wanted to be a marine biologist

I’ve gotten to do a lot of weird stuff.

I choose roles that are not me.

In this business, I don’t know how you can have a plan or how you can orchestrate anything. But I’ve been lucky with my choices. I’m very strong-willed, so I’ve been able to stick with it. I’m lucky there.