Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" I had a wild imagination as a kid - wild! - and I was outside all the time, swinging around in trees by myself. "
Matt Bomer
Trees
Time
Imagination
Related Quotes:
" I would love to just keep working with really great directors who really inspire me. "
Matt Bomer
Me
Working
Love
" 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. "
Matt Bomer
Proud
Remember
Experience
" Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from. "
Matt Bomer
People
Where
Everybody
" I pretty much got busted for everything, but I definitely stretched out my boundaries as a kid, as well. "
Matt Bomer
Boundaries
Pretty
Kid
" You should be watching 'White Collar' because it's a fun, intelligent procedural infused with a lot of great character writing by Jeff Eastin. "
Matt Bomer
Fun
Character
You
" 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. "
Matt Bomer
Grateful
Opportunities
Born
" 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. "
Matt Bomer
Hide
Me
Never
" 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. "
Matt Bomer
Out
Man
Understand
" I tend toward more adult fare, and I would love to do a voice in an animated film or something the boys could go see, but at a certain point, I made peace with myself about it. "
Matt Bomer
Peace
Voice
See
" There aren't a lot of supernatural things that I'm scared or super terrified of, but clowns are definitely on that list. "
Matt Bomer
Clowns
Things
Super
" There's a level of love that really dissolves a lot of egotism and self-absorption. "
Matt Bomer
Really
Love
Lot
" 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. "
Matt Bomer
Secrets
School
Kid
" I'm a kid that went to theater school. I thought I was going to be making my living doing plays regionally or in New York or on Broadway, and maybe if I got lucky I would do a movie here or there. "
Matt Bomer
Doing
Thought
School
" I think every guy and girl would love to get to play Superman at some point in their life. "
Matt Bomer
Play
Life
Girl
" 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. "
Matt Bomer
Character
Fun
Over
" I'm always so inspired by Jeff Eastin's writing. "
Matt Bomer
Always
Writing
Jeff
" I'm blessed to have a family, so it's not like I'm twiddling my thumbs. When I'm not working, that's where all my attention comes. "
Matt Bomer
Attention
Family
Working
" I married up. He's an intelligent and kind soul. "
Matt Bomer
Soul
Up
Intelligent
" I really just try to focus on my job, which is to be an actor, and outside that, the cards fall where they may, and on not getting caught up in how people react to certain things. That's a death trap creatively. "
Matt Bomer
Death
Job
Focus
" Activism isn't beautiful and easy, or a bunch of people getting together and picketing; it's a lot more complicated and difficult than that. "
Matt Bomer
People
Together
Easy
" I don't care about the size of the roles, or how they're marketed or billed or anything like that. I would love to be a part of stories that tell us about where we've come from, where we are, where we're going - with great directors. "
Matt Bomer
Great
Like
Love
" 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. "
Matt Bomer
Soul
Control
Looking
" I don't think it's a bad thing to go out there and challenge yourself as an actor. "
Matt Bomer
Yourself
Bad
Actor
" I had a normal childhood where I was able to cultivate my own creativity, and I don't think I would have been ready for this crazy business at 8 years old. "
Matt Bomer
Crazy
Business
Childhood
" 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. "
Matt Bomer
People
Great
Love
" Certain characters are sticky, especially if they help you grow up as a person, I think. "
Matt Bomer
Grow
You
Help
" It was a gift to get to play a gay role that was written in a three-dimensional, human way. "
Matt Bomer
Play
Way
Role
" I felt a responsibility to Simon and to our kids to be able to live with integrity and not have some strange split psychology of 'This is who my dad is at home, and this is who he is to the public.' "
Matt Bomer
Responsibility
Integrity
Live
" It's rare that you get to play a great role that has an arc. "
Matt Bomer
Rare
Great
Role
" I like endings that let your imagination do a lot of the work. "
Matt Bomer
Endings
Your
Work