Quotes by Rich Sommer - Page 1

I only aim for fashion that's long dead.
Rich Sommer / Actor
Aim
Fashion
Long
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I don't have the confidence to pull off a moustache.
Rich Sommer / Actor
Confidence
Moustache
Pull
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I'm a bit of a nerd, and my extracurricular activity is nerd games.
Rich Sommer / Actor
Activity
Extracurricular Activities
Games
Nerd
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I would like to ban people being allowed to text while in a crosswalk.
Rich Sommer / Actor
Bans
People
Ban
People Being Like
Text
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The amount of times my wife has rolled her eyes at board games is impossible to count.
Rich Sommer / Actor
Eye
Games
Wife
Board
Count
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After 'Urinetown,' 'Avenue Q' and now 'Mormon,' is there an envelope remaining to be pushed?
Rich Sommer / Actor
Avenues
Envelopes
Avenue
Envelope
Mormon
Remaining
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I abhor 'baby talk.' I speak to kids like I would any other person, and they seem to respond to it.
Rich Sommer / Actor
Kids
Baby
Speak
Abhor
Respond
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I think not every improviser is a good stage actor. Certainly not every stage actor is a good improviser.
Rich Sommer / Actor
Improviser
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Gaming has been a great way to get to know people. That's part of what I love about games, that they are social.
Rich Sommer / Actor
Games
Gaming
People
Social
Way
Love Great People
Part
Great Way
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I'm a Joseph Abboud fan. I'm a Hugo Boss fan. I'm a Brooks Brothers fan. As far as suits go, those are my go-tos.
Rich Sommer / Actor
Boss
Brooks
Brother
Fans
Hugo
Joseph
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I've certainly had less practice at fatherhood than I have at acting, but in fatherhood, at least my failures are private!
Rich Sommer / Actor
Acting
Fatherhood
Practice
Certainly
Least
Private
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My only foray into anything stock-market-related was in my eighth grade social studies class. I have steered clear ever since.
Rich Sommer / Actor
Class
Eighth Grade
Social
Study
Eighth
Grade
Steered
Studies
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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.
Rich Sommer / Actor
Men
Dry
Mad
Mad Men
Spells
Thinking
Leaves
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I can juggle, not well... I can balance a broom on my chin. I can do very simple carny tricks, a little sleight of hand with cards and coins.
Rich Sommer / Actor
Balance
Cards
Coins
Hands
Simple
Tricks
Broom
Chin
Juggle
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I have an RSS reader, Feeddler. I mostly subscribe to board game blogs - they have reviews of new games and discussions about trends. It's straight-up dork talk.
Rich Sommer / Actor
Blogs
Boards
Games
Reader
Reviews
Trends
Discussions
Mostly
Subscribe
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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.
Rich Sommer / Actor
College
Harvey
Jimmy
Jimmy Stewart
Rotation
Way
Inordinate
My Friend
Seemed
Weekly
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Anytime you're on camera, 95 percent of whatever character you're playing, unless you're Daniel Day-Lewis - or maybe, no, pretty much just him - you're cast because you're you.
Rich Sommer / Actor
Anytime
Daniel
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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 its why I even got in the door for Mad Men.
Rich Sommer / Actor
New York
Men
Doors
Numbers
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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.'
Rich Sommer / Actor
Improvising
Mad
Mad Men
Commercials
Door
Number
Wears
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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.
Rich Sommer / Actor
Easier
Phones
Topics
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I'll usually stay up a little later than my wife and play Xbox, a little 'Modern Warfare 3.' Or I'll have a friend over, and we'll play board games until late at night. I'll always choose fun over sleep.
Rich Sommer / Actor
Xbox
Modern Warfare
Warfare
Board
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I'm pretty quick to delete something off of my phone if it's become obsolete. And things like RSS readers have made life easier - all of the headlines are going to be related to a topic I'm interested in.
Rich Sommer / Actor
Easier
Headlines
Obsolete
Related
Interested
Delete
Phone
Quick
Readers
Topic
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I wonder if games are maybe a terminus for ideas. Things can be books or movies or operas or plays, but once they're a game, that's where they should end. Things shouldn't start as games and be taken to movies.
Rich Sommer / Actor
Operas
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I don't know if it's the sunshine, or the fact that I actually have a job, but I do like L.A. a lot. In New York, it can be gray and rainy and cold, and you still don't have any money, and you feel like a bad Dickens character.
Rich Sommer / Actor
Jobs
New York
Character
Cold
Dickens
Gray
Rainy
Sunshine
York
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So what's so enticing about doing a play is that you get to do that thing that got you into acting in the first place... There's a real attraction to being able to play, to just play. And that's something that theater affords you.
Rich Sommer / Actor
Attraction
Enticing
Affords
First Place
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I would be lucky to be remembered as Harry Crane. That being said, I think it's a goal for most actors to have the opportunity to play a variety of characters, so I hope any non-'Mad Men' role feels as separate as possible from Harry.
Rich Sommer / Actor
Remembered
Variety
Harry
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I was a temp for three years in New York when I was auditioning; when I was cast in 'Mad Men,' I was still a temp. I'm good at making copies; I'm good at typing things. I'm good at killing the day and making it look like I'm doing something.
Rich Sommer / Actor
Copies
Mad Men
Typing
Auditioning
Good Men Look
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I'm very, very fortunate to be in the job that I'm in, and I would love for it to continue forever, but it won't. I have to financially and emotionally prepare for the day that 'Mad Men' will go away, because who knows what my next job is going to be?
Rich Sommer / Actor
Fortunate
Mad Men
Emotionally
Financially
For The Day
Go Away
Prepare
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I am a board game enthusiast, a board game evangelist, a board game nerd, but I wouldn't say I'm 'keen' because I very rarely win, and 'keen' suggests you're actually good at something. But I do play a lot of them, and I have a pretty good-sized collection.
Rich Sommer / Actor
Enthusiast
Collection
Good I Am Game
Board
Good Game I Am
Evangelist
Rarely
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I'm very happy to say goodbye to the three-button suits. I hate three-button suits. Some people can pull them off, but they're legitimately really, really skinny. Unfortunately, the only people who actually wear them are, like, Mr. Monopoly, and people like that.
Rich Sommer / Actor
Goodbye
Monopoly
Skinny
Mr
Unfortunately
Pull
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Part of what I love about games is that, even if you're best friends with somebody, it gives you these sort of moments where you get to interact on a completely different level. You all agree to these abstract rules, but there's nobody holding a gun to your head.
Rich Sommer / Actor
Abstract
Agree
Gun
Different Level
Holding
Interact
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I listen to a lot of podcasts, which are split down the middle between comedy and board game podcasts, and a couple of eclectic ones like 'The Dinner Party' from NPR, where they take an event that happened that week in history and give you a cocktail recipe inspired by it.
Rich Sommer / Actor
Comedy
Dinner
Dinner Party
Eclectic
Middle
Npr
Party
Board
Cocktail
Event
Recipe
Split
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For the three years I lived in New York leading up to moving out to Los Angeles for 'Mad Men,' I was an office temp at Ernst & Young in Times Square. That's about as desk-jobby as it can get. There was a lot of, 'Go two floors up and make a copy of this and then bring it to me.'
Rich Sommer / Actor
New York
Men
Los Angeles
Mad Men
Moving
Moving Out
Times Square
Two
Angeles
Men Me New
Copy
Floors
Los
Square
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The worst job I ever had was as a telemarketer for, oh, I don't know, I think I made it about 90 minutes. I quit before lunch. I went in around 10:30 or 11 and said, 'I can't do this.' It was horrific. I had too many people yell at me within that 90 minutes to be able to continue.
Rich Sommer / Actor
Horrific
Lunch
Quit
Too Many People
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('Mad Men') was my final audition of the pilot season. It had been three miserable, horrible months where I had zero callbacks, zero positive reception, one of those pilot seasons that makes you pretty sure you are never going to be an actor and never want to be an actor. And then that happened.
Rich Sommer / Actor
Zero
Men
Finals
Mad
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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.
Rich Sommer / Actor
Men
Dialogue
Lovely
Mad Men
Precise
Thinking
Writing
Ad
Anyway
Carefully
Crafted
Frankly
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Three times a year, theres 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 dont own from the library and then return them.
Rich Sommer / Actor
Memorial Day
Couple
Weekend
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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.
Rich Sommer / Actor
Labor
Labor Day
Library
Memorial
Return
Board
Check
Convention
Designers
Presidents
Weekends
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The work that I've gotten in the hiatuses seems to indicate that I will have a little more work after 'Mad Men' than I did when I was scraping by while I was temping in New York, but who knows? People very easily could be like, 'Meh, we're done with that. We've got Jon Hamm. We're good without the weird one with glasses.'
Rich Sommer / Actor
New York
Glasses
Mad
Mad Men
Scraping
Seems
Work Good Men
Weird
Jon
Easily
Gotten
Indicate
York
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My roomate at 'Harvey' is this guy Morgan Spector, an actor in town, and I've taught him Hive and Fastrack. Others have played For the Win, but Cards Against Humanity has been the dressing room hit. We've had the understudies, even Jim Parsons playing it. Our dressing room is practically sponsored by Cards Against Humanity.
Rich Sommer / Actor
Cards
Guy
Harvey
Humanity
Taught
Against
Actor
Played
Hit
Dressing
Dressing Room
Him
Practically
Hive
Jim
Morgan
Room
Spector
Sponsored
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Improv definitely made me a better auditioner, without a doubt. We did do an audition semester in grad school, and that was helpful for those times that you have a script and you have a few days to prepare it, to really work on sides. But the auditions I was doing in New York, if you got it the night before, you were very lucky.
Rich Sommer / Actor
New York
Doubt
Grad
Grad School
Helpful
Night
School
Semester
Sides
Work Me Night
Audition
Work Me Better
Improv
Prepare
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