Jessica Pare Quotes

I like to sing around the bonfire, in my car and in the shower.

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

There's also something happening in television similar to what happened in the '80s, when people stopped taking so many drugs and wanted to hear real instruments in music again. I think people want plot, story and characters. Those are more important than having a big star.

I'm not an '80s fan. I'm more '70s New York pre-punk kind of thing and I guess I grew up with '90s grunge, post-punk pop music.

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

The advice I would give myself is: "Don't date that guy, don't drink that, go right home, get a good night's sleep."

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.

I hadn't done any professional singing. I had sung in the shower and in my car and sometimes at a family bonfire if there was enough alcoholized wine.

Honey is hydrating and antiseptic. It really clears your skin, and its moisturizing. You can use it every day if you want. Its so gentle.

The music industry is rolling in cash...

I love acting. I love what I do. I am absolutely filled every day with gratitude that I get to do it.

I don't mind auditioning. Sometimes, I think it's necessary.

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'm reading a lot of scripts. It makes my career decisions in that sense much the same way I consume media.

One of my most exciting Saturday nights was just me and a bottle of wine and a crochet book.

An actor will use every piece of information at their disposal, or a good actor will.

I did play Jesus in 'Godspell,' in high school, because I guess I'm a nerd.

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.

I often find that people's reactions to the show say way more about them than they do about the show itself. I think that's because a lot of it happens between the lines.

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

I love Jon Hamm. I'm so lucky to get to work with him and work so closely with him.

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

I'm at the age when my friends have started having kids, and when my first good friend had a baby, the first time I picked up her daughter I spoke in French. I didn't even think about it. It just came out. Maybe it's because it's my mother tongue?

Of course I’m a feminist…if you’re not for the equal treatment of men and women, then you’re a fascist.

I love Jon Hamm. I'm so lucky to get to work with him and work so closely with him. We have a lot of these scenes that are very intimate, and very tender. Those are the kind of things that an actor lives for. Real moments of connection with other actors.

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

At the time I just was like, I can't believe I am on the show, and the first thing I have to do is an entire song and dance routine for the whole cast of 'Mad Men.

For me as an actor, it's absolutely so thrilling to hear anybody talk about the character that I play.