Rich Sommer Quotes

After the 'Golden Compass,' I wasn't sure if I'd ever get another acting job.

It's funny, when you become an actor and you're successful, they don't want to talk about acting any more. 'Hey let's talk about that stuff you were fired from.'

Honestly, I get more recognized for 'Three Men and a Little Lady' than 'Harry Potter'.

Acting was something that just came along. But I made good money, so it wasn't something I was just going to put aside and pretend it didn't exist.

It's a very odd thing with Hollywood, where you do stand-up, you're good at it, then they go, 'How would you like to be a horrible actor?' Then you say, 'All right, that sounds good. I'll do that.'

As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving.

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.'

I think, in the past, you could buy a flat and live comfortably on theatre and touring theatre, but you can't do that anymore, which means that you have to have a certain amount of celebrity and profile to, therefore, get TV and film work.

If my gravy train stops at SAG, honey, it's been a great ride.

I'm thrilled to get hired every once in a while.

I just wanted to be a guy who could earn a living as an actor, and I did that for a long time.

I guess that is a good compliment for an actor for people to hate you wherever you go.

Seems to me that this business, for actors anyway, is not so much about whether or not you do good work. It's about whether or not you get the chance to do good work.

I'm sure that people must say about me, on the screen, 'Good gracious, is Jeanette MacDonald going to take off her clothes - again?

I've been very lucky and been able to work, as an actress, but I'm definitely a working actress. I get a script, I audition, and then I pray.

You never can take for granted that you have a job.

I did become quite well known from 'Four Weddings and a Funeral', and it helped hugely. I wasn't as famous as Hugh Grant, but I certainly began to work.

I think the hardest thing about being an actor is between jobs when you don't know and wondering if you'll ever work again. It's kind of a crazy business.

I never imagined being able to make money from acting - and now I can.

Hopefully, I can cross over into Hollywood, and hopefully that will bring me a bigger name in China.

By the way, movies are like sporting events in that you're as good as the movie you're in. You can sit in a room for 20 years and go do a movie and you can just kill in it and you move to the head of the line again. By the same token, you can do five movies a year and if they're dreck, it's nothing.

I have been recognized from 'Mad Men,' and it's so cool when that happens because I am so proud to be a part of the show.

Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate.

I vowed I would never do a commercial, or a soap opera - both of which I did as soon as I left the Acting Company and was starving.

And I've been lucky in that I haven't had another job besides acting in the last five years.