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 Read Quote
The amount of times my wife has rolled her eyes at board games is impossible to count. Rich Sommer Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I abhor ‘baby talk.’ I speak to kids like I would any other person, and they seem to respond to it. Rich Sommer Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
