Top 184 Quotes & Sayings by Matt Bomer - Page 2

To me, when you're at a hotel, and your home environment is ultimately dictated by somebody else, I always find that a little bit oppressive and scary in a way. Especially if it's not done well or not run well.

It's not like the right for gay people to marry just happened.

I remember I was really, really proud the first moment I got my insurance and also just going in to get my SAG card and filling out the form and realizing I was a member of all the unions I could be a part of as an actor. It was a really fulfilling experience for me.

Thankfully, I have a very full life. I'm married with kids, so I have a lot of things to focus on, other projects either in post-production or pre-production, so you just do the best you can.

You're not going to do that. If you gave your best to what you were given, at the time, it's going to play out how it's going to play out.

I never really endeavored to hide anything. But there were times I chose not to relegate my history to the back page of a magazine, which to me is sort of akin to putting your biography on a bathroom wall.

I think when someone knows who they are and is comfortable and confident with that, I think a lot of the typical, aesthetic things sort of fall by the wayside.

You're really lucky as an artist if you get a role that changes you as a person.

It's so hard for me to let go of 'The Normal Heart.'

It's rare that you get to play a great role that has an arc.

For every role, I brought certain elements of the character. Even on 'White Collar' over six years, I tried to keep the set fun and breezy and Howard Hawks-y and very of the tone of the show.

As a gay man in Hollywood, I certainly understand what it means to be in it but not of it, to be marginalized at times and kept out of certain clubs.

Obviously, when you finish something like 'White Collar,' there are so many opportunities to just do something similar because people want that kind of thing, and I really have tried to stretch myself out, for better or for worse. I hope that I'm able to get to continue to do that, as an artist, and I'm not the guy who shows up to be charming.

Everyone needs a reset button so you can start your day without anxiety. For some people, it's running; for some, it's going to the gym. For me, it's meditation.

Certain characters are sticky, especially if they help you grow up as a person, I think.

I love that Amazon has this incredibly unique, diplomatic process where people's voices are heard, and we're using this great interconnectedness we have, via the Internet, to weigh in and to have a say in what we want to see and what we don't.

I'm a huge fan of 'The Vampire Chronicles,' both the Neil Jordan film and the books themselves.

It's rare that you get to be a part of something that, hopefully, has some significance socially or historically.

We didn't get to see a lot of movies in my house growing up, so the first time I got to go to the movies - I think it was 'E.T.' - I was like, 'Oh my God, somebody else gets my imagination!'

I like 'Citizen Kane,' I like 'The Godfather,' all the ones that everyone should see, whether you're an actor or not.

I would say confidence and security and comfortability in one's own skin. I think that's so attractive. Truly.

When you work crazy TV hours, you got to have a good sense of humor.

I learned a lot about self-reinvention. How you can be born Milton Sternberg in the Bronx and then become Monroe Stahr in Hollywood.

I think people in theater are pretty open-minded and objective about the talent and what they can bring to the story they want to tell.

I try to just live my life and do my work, and the rest will just fall into place, as it may. As it will.

One of the ways I learned how to act, really, is by having secrets and having to function as a kid in a public school in suburban Bible Belt Texas.

I remember taking my brother's car out, pushing it down the driveway in neutral in the night, and going out joyriding with friends and getting flat tires and getting busted. My license was revoked by my dad. So, definitely, I was a kid. I was a teenage boy.

I'd like to get a chance to wear two different hats in the business. I also think it would be really great to do an adaptation of a great novel.

I'd like to really make the Montgomery Clift biopic happen.

My grandma blows my mind. To me, she exemplifies what a loving, accepting Christian is.

When you really put your heart and soul into something, the temptation is to try to be in control of circumstances, however you can, and looking and seeing how people are responding. But I realized, early on, that that was just not going to be a healthy thing for me to do.

I think TV, at least most immediately, perhaps more so than film, is a reflection of society.

I adore Jane Lynch, so just to get the opportunity to work with her was phenomenal.

Human imagination is so much more potent than anything we could put down in words.

There aren't a lot of supernatural things that I'm scared or super terrified of, but clowns are definitely on that list.

I would sit on the swing set and swing literally for two hours, just, like, imagining things. Like, what if this happened, and what if I was this guy?

I lived in several hotels, yeah. You have to try to make it home.

Certainly, when you're dealing with more deep, emotional work and sensory work, for me, it helps me to just stay in it.

There were, and still are, a lot of different points of view in the gay community. It's not everybody holding hands and singing 'Kumbaya.' People have very different perspectives.

How can you not have preconceived notions and expectations of who Kelsey Grammer is gonna be? He's been in my living room since my TV was on. And he exceeded them all, somehow. He's such a beautiful and open-hearted collaborator and mentor and such a great family man. I was just lucky to get to work with him and learn from him.

I married up. He's an intelligent and kind soul.

It's a struggle for anybody to take their paradigms and set of beliefs and understandings and completely flip the script.

I had a wild imagination as a kid - wild! - and I was outside all the time, swinging around in trees by myself.

Oh, I think Janie Bryant is a genius. I mean, I think she changed menswear almost single-handedly with what she did on 'Mad Men.'

I grew up on theater, and honestly, I'm trying to figure out a way with a family and kids and living in Los Angeles to get back to the stage because it is my first love.

I did a one-off episode of 'The New Normal' for Ryan Murphy, and that was the first time I played a gay role.

We all have a great deal of admirable qualities, and we all have some that could probably be improved upon.

Outside of, as a kid, just wanting to be able to fly and run faster than a speeding locomotive and being able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, we'd like to hope that, when push comes to shove, we can do the right thing. I think as long as there is that hope in our society and in the zeitgeist of superheroes, Superman will be relevant.

I'm always so inspired by Jeff Eastin's writing.

I love 'Jaws,' and I think Robert Shaw's performance in 'Jaws' is one of the best screen performances of all time. I am a massive Robert Shaw fan. I think he's a brilliant, brilliant talent and we lost him way before his time.

I would love to just keep working with really great directors who really inspire me.

I'm so grateful to be born in the times I live in and to be provided the opportunities I've been given. I'd be wrong to complain.

When we were filming the first 'Magic Mike,' we obviously had a limited budget; it was an independent film. And we would entertain extras in between takes.

I like endings that let your imagination do a lot of the work.

I've been handling guns since I was a kid.

I was raised in a conservative Christian household. We weren't even allowed to watch 'secular' television, anything that was deemed not proper for Christians.

I love 'Sunset Boulevard.' I love the writing, I love the performances, I love the camera work. I think it's a perfect movie.

I got a .30-30 for Christmas in the seventh grade. It wasn't what I asked for, by the way.

When it's a really dark emotional scene, you have to make the effort to shake it off, at the end of the day, before you go home to your kids and try to be a normal human being. You definitely want to make that effort to shake it off.

I had a very progressive drama teacher who would buy all the plays that were in New York and bring them to suburban Texas.