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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
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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. "
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Play
Doing
Place
" 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. "
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Gun
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Friends
" 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. "
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Men
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Goal
" I'm a bit of a nerd, and my extracurricular activity is nerd games. "
Rich Sommer
Games
Bit
Nerd
" I abhor 'baby talk.' I speak to kids like I would any other person, and they seem to respond to it. "
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Speak
Like
Baby
" 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. "
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Hand
Balance
Simple
" 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. "
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Meet
Look
Library
" I think not every improviser is a good stage actor. Certainly not every stage actor is a good improviser. "
Rich Sommer
Actor
I Think
Stage
" 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. "
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Quick
Life
Become
" 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. "
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Others
Cards
Dressing
" 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
Sleep
Fun
Friend
" 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
Men
Moving
New York
" 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
Weird
Good
Men
" 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
Anything
Clear
" 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
Used
Friend
My Friend
" 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
Job
Sunshine
Money
" After 'Urinetown,' 'Avenue Q' and now 'Mormon,' is there an envelope remaining to be pushed? "
Rich Sommer
Pushed
Now
Envelope
" 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
Why
New York
Men
" I don't have the confidence to pull off a moustache. "
Rich Sommer
Confidence
Off
Pull
" 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
Fan
Boss
Brothers
" 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
Goodbye
Happy
Suits
" The amount of times my wife has rolled her eyes at board games is impossible to count. "
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Her
Eyes
Impossible
" I've certainly had less practice at fatherhood than I have at acting, but in fatherhood, at least my failures are private! "
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Acting
Than
Practice
" 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. "
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Dinner
Week
You
" 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
Think
Men
Need
" 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
Start
Wonder
Ideas
" 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. "
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New
Games
Game
" 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. "
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Pretty
Him
Camera
" I only aim for fashion that's long dead. "
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Long
Only
Aim
" 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. "
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Men
Doing
Good