Top 44 Christina Hendricks Quotes

In person, I wear jeans and flip-flops, and people are so shocked. They tell me I look so much younger than they expected.

Sexiness is about being an individual and having conviction about what that is.

I think calling me ‘full-figured’ is just rude.

I adore the incredibly tight clothing! My own wardobe’s changed – I’ve streamlined a little bit and definitely learnt from Joan’s sleekiness and tailoring.

I just thought I would work in a hair salon and do community theater.

I come up with the silliest excuses when it’s time to work out. I’ll be like, ‘Oh no! Now I have to go and find some socks.’

I just keep praying for Joan to get her power back. To resolve her problems and rise to the top. To fight back!

Any woman who is currently with a man is with him partly because she loves the way he smells.

The way we dress on ‘Mad Men’ is so associated with old photographs, with people’s parents and grandparents.

We have defined these characters – people always expect to see me in a pencil skirt. When they see me out of one – much like when they see Jon Hamm’s hair when it isn’t slick – they say, ‘Wait a minute, you’re all 2010!’

When I first started dating my husband, I had this weird fascination with the circus and clowns and old carnival things and sideshow freaks and all that. About a month after we started dating, he bought me this amazing black-and-white photo book on the circus in the 1930s, and I started sobbing.

When the attention started to be about my figure, I was surprised, because it wasn’t something I was focused on.

We’re really spoiled on ‘Mad Men.’ Lots of television actors use the down season to go out and get creatively fulfilled, but I feel the opposite. Anything else I get to do is just icing.

I love anything that’s sort of surreal and with fantasy.

I have a problem keeping my mouth shut. I usually speak my mind. I’m trying to learn my lesson.

I’m constantly saying that I have bad hair days when I’m in New York. It’s so hard. I’ve been lucky enough to jump immediately into a car, head straight to the location, and stay in the air-conditioning.

If I get any private time in my trailer, all of a sudden I’m doing sit-ups and push-ups.

Some of the things people have said about me, well, they’re unbelievable.

It just seemed so odd as people had never commented on my body before. Every woman obsesses over her figure, but I was happy, I felt sexy – I never thought about it. I know this sounds naive, but I honestly never expected this kind of attention.

I really do love being outdoors – I mean, you’d never think it in my high heels and pencil skirt! But I really do miss the smell of hay and farms, and I like milking a cow.

We were probably the last people in the country to get a VCR and we didn’t have cable. There wasn’t any admiration of glamour, no, ‘I want to look like them or have that lifestyle’, because everyone in my town had the same lifestyle. So I didn’t think, ‘Ooh, a movie star’s birthday!’ I just thought, ‘What?’

I know plenty of people who don’t have children. And I also get a lot of people who say, ‘Thank you for speaking out; my family don’t understand why I don’t want kids.’

I’ve always been someone who really watches other people, human behavior. To watch it and be able to express it through your version has always been really exciting to me.

You can never predict what’s going to be successful, so you have to do the one you really love, and I picked ‘Mad Men.’

Over the years, it seems ‘Firefly’ has only gained momentum rather than lost it. I still get letters from people who watched the show – I get more ‘Firefly’ than ‘Mad Men’ letters.

I’ve been telling everyone for weeks now about how I get to play Lois Lane. It’s a big deal. There are a few characters throughout your life which everyone knows and this is one of them. I can’t wait.

Everyone assumes we’re always going to have a cocktail and a cigarette in hand. Fans expect us all to be dressed up all the time. They always say to me, ‘You look so young. You don’t seem as tall!’

It is tricky because I do wear a lot of vintage on the red carpet, and usually when I’m getting ready, I’ll say, ‘We need to make sure that I don’t look like I’m in a Scorsese film today.’ Sometimes I do something a little bit more modern with my hair. You have to mix it up.

When you’re doing voice work, you’re in a bubble where you just think about the story and the words. They record you on video while you’re doing the voice work, so they capture how your face is moving and the gestures you make.

I started doing community theatre as a way to make friends, and that was when I caught the acting bug.

I tend to take things personally. But I can only take so much, and then I jump back. I have strong survival skills.

I went to a very mean school and was bullied like crazy. I was a bit of a goth with purple hair, and I was also part of the drama group, which was filled with actors and writers and wasn’t really accepted by the rest of the school.

I like salty, creamy foods. I could sit down with a bag of chips and French onion dip and go to town! That would be on my last-supper list.

I had been on several shows that were meant to be the big ones, that would go on forever, and they didn’t.

As for the herbal cigarettes, for the most part I don’t smoke as much as the guys do. I’m usually just strutting around a bit more so I don’t actually have to be inhaling it. I’m lucky because I do have scenes where the cigarettes work beautifully to punctuate certain things I’m saying.

I met a lot of young girls modelling and they were like, ‘Oh, I’m running around town and people are taking my picture’, while I was saving receipts and learning how to be self-employed.

I think Joan’s advice would be: always know more than anyone else, always be discreet as possible. And never cry at work.

I was a dancer until I was 19. I never had to worry about working out or what I ate. So I’ve really had to train myself to get down to the gym.

Caftans are just the perfect solution to what to wear at home. I love Camilla Franks’, but I also get great vintage ones on eBay.

My mother never said to lose weight. Diets were never a big deal. My mom was always beautiful and voluptuous and curvy, and I always thought she was gorgeous.

My parents didn’t exercise, so it was not something I saw was good for you or fun. I wish I had grown up knowing to do that.

I don’t think it’s not feminist to use every tool you have to succeed, and part of that is being a woman – presenting yourself in a certain way.

Anytime someone talks about your figure constantly, you get nervous; you get really self-conscious.

I have classic and feminine taste. I’m definitely drawn to vintage-inspired and ladylike things. I like an accentuated waist, and a strong shoulder works well with my figure.