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" I worked for 10 years before 'Mad Men,' and what was great is that when people saw my work, I was just loving working, so it wasn't about anything else than that. "

Abigail Spencer

Mad

Loving

Great

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" What happened with 'Mad Men' was I had just had my child, I was in a very literally and creatively fertile time in my life, and I wasn't leaving the house much. So when 'Mad Men' came along, I was so excited to leave the house. Like, I get to go do this beautiful thing. "

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" 'The Philadelphia Story' is one of my favorite movies, as is 'Bringing Up Baby.' "

" I feel like network didn't want me. I was doing all these pilots, and it never worked out. I was like, network doesn't like me. I'm going to go to cable where I'm appreciated. Then it was funny; I think I had to go to cable for network to appreciate me. "

" I grew up in a small Southern town, kind of a counterculture to a small Southern mentality. "

" Unless you paddle for the wave, you'll never know if you could catch it. But once you do... Ride it as long as you can. Love as long as you can. "

" When I was twenty-six, I had my son. "

Abigail Spencer

Son

Had

" I have ice cream every week. Maybe twice. I live for ice cream, but not just any ice cream. It has to be locally sourced and usually somewhere I can walk to. "

" Travel is the only way to get empathy for other people's mindsets - to know their struggles and what they're drawn to. "

" I'm always trying to get in water. It is the life source. It's extremely easy to dehydrate working 14 hours a day and on my feet all the time. "

" I'm a huge Katharine Hepburn fan. "

" Awards are very important for a show like 'Rectify.' We're a small show; we're on a more obscure, harder-to-find channel that is very supportive of creative and singular vision. "

Abigail Spencer

Vision

Important

" It's all about how can you take care of yourself when furthering your life's goals and ambitions, and purpose and whatever you choose - family, career - to maintain a really balanced, whole, healthy outlook. "

" Gratefulness is a double-edged sword. Because I think we've poured it into a feeling. And the batter of gratitude gets kind of stuck to the edges of the Williams Sonoma melamine mixing bowl. But gratefulness, the act of being grateful is actually... a verb. It's an activity. "

" My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug 'Vanity Fair.' You feel smarter, somehow, for reading it. "

" I love nothing more than a good, rich, dark chocolate. It exhilarates. It satisfies. "

Abigail Spencer

Love

Chocolate