I trained at RADA, then went into the theatre, but TV is like starting at the bottom again. I have just been learning.

You just hope each job is going to be as good as it possibly can be.

The 'Jamestown' set was so convincing. It had been raining for a few days before we started filming, and when we turned up, we were knee-high in mud. There were pigs and goats everywhere, too, which meant the whole place smelled pretty ripe. It definitely helped us enter the 'Jamestown' world immediately.

All Anne Lister wanted was a wife, and the other liaisons couldn't commit, but Ann Walker did. She took sacrament with her, and they became wife and wife. That shows extraordinary strength.

It's funny: I don't get to play characters where I wear what I want to wear. With 'Mad Men,' if Janie Bryant doesn't laugh at me, then that outfit doesn't make it to air.

I started comedy in, like, 1998.

I have a dark sense of humor.

Dying is easy. Comedy is hard.