Rich Sommer Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“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

#Men #Thinking #Mad
“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

#New York #Men #Doors
“I would like to ban people being allowed to text while in a crosswalk.”
-- Rich Sommer

#People #Bans
“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

#New York #Moving #Men
“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

#Brother #Boss #Suits
“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

#Writing #Men #Thinking
“I don't have the confidence to pull off a moustache.”
-- Rich Sommer

#Moustache
“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

#New York #School #Night
“I abhor 'baby talk.' I speak to kids like I would any other person, and they seem to respond to it.”
-- Rich Sommer

#Baby #Kids #Speak
“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

#Memorial Day #Couple #Weekend
“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

#Phones #Topics #Obsolete
“My only foray into anything stock-market-related was in my eighth grade social studies class. I have steered clear ever since.”
-- Rich Sommer

#Class #Study #Social
“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

#New York #Jobs #Character
“I'm a bit of a nerd, and my extracurricular activity is nerd games.”
-- Rich Sommer

#Games #Nerd #Extracurricular Activities
“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

#Games #People #Way
“The amount of times my wife has rolled her eyes at board games is impossible to count.”
-- Rich Sommer

#Eye #Games #Wife
“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

#Games #Trends #Boards
“I've certainly had less practice at fatherhood than I have at acting, but in fatherhood, at least my failures are private!”
-- Rich Sommer

#Practice #Acting #Fatherhood
“After 'Urinetown,' 'Avenue Q' and now 'Mormon,' is there an envelope remaining to be pushed?”
-- Rich Sommer

#Envelopes
“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

#Simple #Hands #Balance
“I only aim for fashion that's long dead.”
-- Rich Sommer

#Fashion #Long #Aim
“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

#College #Way #Rotation

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