The 12 years that I was improvising are why I got the number of commercials I got when I was in New York and why I got 'The Devil Wears Prada,' and it's why I even got in the door for 'Mad Men.'

Three times a year, there's Strategicon convention, and I go for the board games. It happens Presidents Day, Labor Day, and Memorial Day weekends. You go and take a look at the new board games and meet a couple of board game designers, and you can check out games you don't own from the library and then return them.

I only aim for fashion that’s long dead.

I don’t have the confidence to pull off a moustache.

I’ve certainly had less practice at fatherhood than I have at acting, but in fatherhood, at least my failures are private!

I abhor ‘baby talk.’ I speak to kids like I would any other person, and they seem to respond to it.

Frankly, as much as I love to improvise, it hasn’t been difficult to stick to the script on ‘Mad Men.’ The writing is so precise, and the story so carefully crafted, that I don’t think there’s room – or need – for ad libbing. I could never come up with dialogue as lovely as these writers do, anyway.

Im pretty quick to delete something off of my phone if its become obsolete. And things like RSS readers have made life easier – all of the headlines are going to be related to a topic Im interested in.

Before ‘Mad Men,’ I definitely had very dry spells and I know what those feel like, and I don’t think that ever leaves you as an actor.

In college, my friend Melanie and I used to have weekly Jimmy Stewart viewings, and ‘Harvey’ seemed to make its way into the rotation an inordinate amount of times.