I think not every improviser is a good stage actor. Certainly not every stage actor is a good improviser. Rich Sommer More Quotes by Rich Sommer More Quotes From Rich Sommer 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 rotation college way 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 balance simple hands 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 boss fans brother ('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 mad zero men I would like to ban people being allowed to text while in a crosswalk. Rich Sommer bans people 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 men moving 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 night school I abhor 'baby talk.' I speak to kids like I would any other person, and they seem to respond to it. Rich Sommer speak baby kids 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 weekend couple 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 numbers men 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 topics easier phones 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 extracurricular-activities nerd games 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 wife eye games 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 trends boards games I've certainly had less practice at fatherhood than I have at acting, but in fatherhood, at least my failures are private! Rich Sommer fatherhood acting practice After 'Urinetown,' 'Avenue Q' and now 'Mormon,' is there an envelope remaining to be pushed? Rich Sommer avenues envelopes
