JON HAMM ON HIS CASTING:
"If Rob Lowe had been cast in the part, it would have been different," says Jon Hamm, on the set in L.A. "There was no backstory with me."
JANUARY JONES ON BETTY DRAPER:
"I need not to think about my character. Betty is so blissfully ignorant in certain ways, so I feel like I should be too . . . I don't need to relate to her. The biggest obstacle for me is not to judge her."
CHRISTINA HENDRICKS ON JOAN HOLLOWAY:
"There are all sorts of challenges thrown at her. Horrific things. And she consistently pulls it together, cleans it up and moves forward. Sometimes she's walking through mud, but she does it."
ELISABETH MOSS ON THE CAST'S FAME:
"Matt always says that he basically hired a bunch of not-famous people, but people that had been working for a really long time."
VINCENT KARTHEISER ON BEING RECOGNIZED:
"One of my few vanities is going to a party and people not realizing I'm the person they saw in Mad Men."
HAMM ON DON DRAPER:
"I don't really have that much in comparison to the way Don holds himself. I'm not that guy. I don't really look like that."
HAMM ON MOVIE STAR MENTALITY:
"I fly very low on the radar. Mark Twain said it: 'I'd rather say nothing and be thought an idiot than open my mouth and remove all doubt.' Another Missouri boy, Mark Twain. The petulant, shitty movie-star mentality - that burns out pretty quick."
[great behind-the-scenes photos at Rolling Stone]