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" It's rare that you get to play a great role that has an arc. "
Matt Bomer
Rare
Great
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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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" I don't know anybody who walks through life all the time in the doldrums, constantly serious and morose. But that's become what we generalize as drama. "
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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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" 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. "
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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 like 'Citizen Kane,' I like 'The Godfather,' all the ones that everyone should see, whether you're an actor or not. "
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" I'm from a very athletic family, and I thoroughly enjoyed sports as a kid, but acting was a way of expressing myself and having fun. It was something I found on my own. "
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Family
Fun
" In the end, someone is depending on me to show up on their set looking a specific way, whether that's 40 pounds overweight or 40 pounds underweight - or looking like a stripper. "
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Me
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Way
" It's rare that you get to be a part of something that, hopefully, has some significance socially or historically. "
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Something
Significance
" You have to remember you're an artist and get hungry. "
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Artist
Get
Hungry
" 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. "
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" I adore Jane Lynch, so just to get the opportunity to work with her was phenomenal. "
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" My parents knew if they kept me active, I'd stay out of trouble. "
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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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You
Become
Hollywood
" 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. "
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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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" To be honest with you, my physical state is usually dictated by the project I'm working on at a given time. "
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" I pretty much got busted for everything, but I definitely stretched out my boundaries as a kid, as well. "
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