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" 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. "
Matt Bomer
People
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" It's rare that you get to be a part of something that, hopefully, has some significance socially or historically. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm a huge fan of 'The Vampire Chronicles,' both the Neil Jordan film and the books themselves. "
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" Playing athletics, playing a lot of different sports, going to drama school... I was one of those kids who wanted to do everything, so I ended up being pretty average at everything. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Just being attached to 'Superman' actually gave a great boost to my career. "
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" There's a level of love that really dissolves a lot of egotism and self-absorption. "
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" For me, I look at a pilot and go, 'I see the landscape. I see the characters. I see the direction and the potential of the story.' And I also go, 'That didn't work. I could change that. Maybe that works. I don't know. We'll see.' For me, I look at it, as an actor, as what can I improve upon? "
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" It's not like the right for gay people to marry just happened. "
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" I lived in several hotels, yeah. You have to try to make it home. "
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" As actors you're always going to take certain roles that are in your comfort zone and take ones that aren't. "
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" There's a security, a validity of knowing that it's legal. It's hard to put into words. It's just a feeling, I guess - something about saying vows in front of the people around you who love and support you. "
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" I learned a lot about self-reinvention. How you can be born Milton Sternberg in the Bronx and then become Monroe Stahr in Hollywood. "
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" For some reason, they always gave me a fat suit in high-school productions. If there was a character who needed to be robust, they gave me a fat suit, and I put on a silly voice. "
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" I'm always so inspired by Jeff Eastin's writing. "
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" I can safely say that I had an incredibly difficult and trying past growing up and trying to be an artist and standing up as who I am in this world. "
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" I came from a long line of football players. "
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