Rich Sommer Quotes

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.

My ambition is to sit behind a desk and work.

The worst job I ever had was an office job that I had for six years, and that's nothing against the people who I was surrounded by, because they were wonderful people.

I was terrible at desk jobs.

I thought administration was the running of the office. The Xerox machine. Paying bills.

You talk to the real cops and they say ninety percent of it is paperwork.

All of the men on my staff can type.

Frank liked administrative work and was good at it.

It's got to be weird to sit in an office all day and deal with these creative types without having any idea of what they do or how they do it.

The kind of job where you come in and work 9 to 5, and where someone tells you what to do all day is becoming scarcer and scarcer.

I'm an office manager for Office Max. I have two daughters. I'm married. I have a normal job.

I didn't want to spend my life behind a desk.

It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance.

I never worked in an office in my life.

I couldn't sit in a chair in an office all day.

I've always been interested in the office. I was a secretary a long time ago, and I've always been into paperwork. My first secretarial job was 1965 or 1966.

I love New York. I lived there all through the '70s and have lived in L.A. since the early '80s but come back all the time to do theater.

I will never work in a cubicle.

I don't like to be involved in front-office stuff.

The transition of a desk job, having to be in the office at the same time every day, I found super hard.

I've done everything from research to stuffing envelopes.

It is not the most pleasant employment to spend eight hours a day in a counting house.

New York, New York, - a helluva town, The Bronx is up but the Battery is down.

Why is it forbidden in New York to acknowledge the charm and beauty of Los Angeles?

The only reason I wouldn't go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump.