My stepfather had a connection with The Second City and told me I should go there. I woke up in a cold sweat one night and said, 'I'm moving to Chicago.' That's how I went to Second City.
- Ian Gomez
City, Woke, Had, Stepfather
As a child, one of my defense mechanisms was to try to be funny. My mom tried to nurture that by putting me in acting class. But I got bored when we stopped pretending to be trees and actually had to work.
- Ian Gomez
Mom, Pretending, Putting, Nurture
My mom's family is Russian Jewish, and my dad's Puerto Rico Catholic, so it's kind of a weird mix.
- Ian Gomez
Puerto Rico, Russian, Dad, Mix
It's funny because 'Felicity' didn't have a huge following, but the following it did have is hugely devoted, so people who are fanatics about 'Felicity' would run up to me all the time. I'd be at a bar, and someone will go, 'Hey, were you on Felicity? ...' I loved doing the show.
- Ian Gomez
Doing, Show, About, Hey
People come up and say, 'Hey, I know you!' They're middle-aged women and big burly guys. They say, 'Don't tell anyone, but I watch Felicity, and I think it's great.'
- Ian Gomez
Big, Tell, I Think, Hey
When I got out of high school, I was working in restaurants in New York City, when I heard Bill Anderson from The Neighborhood Playhouse was doing private lessons. I started taking classes, and it was a lot of improv and Meisner and repetition.
- Ian Gomez
City, Doing, Private, Neighborhood
Scott Foley was always fun because he's a very funny guy. So I liked working with him a bunch.
- Ian Gomez
Always, Guy, Very, Scott
I remember I got an ALMA award for an actor being on three shows simultaneously.
- Ian Gomez
Remember, Actor, I Remember, Simultaneously
Once you lose that fear, good stuff can happen because you're not in your head about whether it will suck. Once you don't care and accept that it probably will suck, then it probably won't suck.
- Ian Gomez
Lose, Will, Happen, Suck
I have a speech impediment because I slur a lot, and they even make fun of me on 'Cougar Town' because there's certain word combinations that I just can't say.
- Ian Gomez
Say, Town, Lot, Impediment
We come from Second City where you're taught if you make your fellow stage partner look good, that makes you look good.
- Ian Gomez
City, Come, Makes, Fellow
I met my wife, Nia Vardalos, at The Second City, and she was chomping at the bit to move to L.A.
- Ian Gomez
Wife, City, Move, Second City
I met my wife, Nia Vardalos, at The Second City, and she was chomping at the bit to move to L.A. I was afraid of having to start all over again, which happened. But we got lucky.
- Ian Gomez
Lucky, Over, Which, Second City
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