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" I've been handling guns since I was a kid. "
Matt Bomer
Been
Kid
Since
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" I was always that fringe guy anyway, the guy who played football and then did the musicals. "
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Musicals
Guy
Always
" I never feel more confident and comfortable than when I'm wearing a Tom Ford suit. "
Matt Bomer
Tom
Confident
Feel
" Well, when you're playing a role, you have to think, 'What is ultimately motivating the character?' "
Matt Bomer
Playing
Character
Think
" 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. "
Matt Bomer
Living
Love
Trying
" If you're wearing suits and you want to create your own sense of style, get to the tailor. "
Matt Bomer
Create
You
Own
" 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. "
Matt Bomer
First
Independent
Magic
" My parents knew if they kept me active, I'd stay out of trouble. "
Matt Bomer
Out
Me
Trouble
" 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
" My standard uniform is a T-shirt and jeans. "
Matt Bomer
Standard
Uniform
Jeans
" 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
" 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!' "
Matt Bomer
Time
Think
God
" I pretty much got busted for everything, but I definitely stretched out my boundaries as a kid, as well. "
Matt Bomer
Boundaries
Pretty
Kid
" 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
" I sort of take cues from my grandparents. "
Matt Bomer
Grandparents
Sort
Take
" When I was 27, I felt old. I didn't feel healthy. I just wasn't taking care of my body, and I had a body that wanted me to take care of it. "
Matt Bomer
Body
Take Care
Me
" 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? "
Matt Bomer
Like
Things
What If
" I see what kids in the business have to watch. It's tough to do. "
Matt Bomer
Tough
Business
Watch
" My personal life is a source of incredible happiness for me, but it's personal, and it's not for me to hock or shop around to the highest bidder. "
Matt Bomer
Life Is A
Me
Happiness
" Our high school offered a comprehensive drama department where I was doing 'Angels in America' at 14. "
Matt Bomer
School
America
Doing
" 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
" Working on TV can be quite insular. "
Matt Bomer
TV
Quite
Working
" I've definitely had crazy acting teachers. "
Matt Bomer
Acting
Teachers
Had
" I used to go to sports camp every summer. I'd make a lot of new friends, and it was all athletic. It was basically a place for parents to send their kids to run out all their summer energy for two weeks. "
Matt Bomer
Energy
Sports
Parents
" 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. "
Matt Bomer
Growing Up
Artist
World
" Cote de Pablo is one of my best friends! We went to college together. "
Matt Bomer
Best
College
Together
" I got a .30-30 for Christmas in the seventh grade. It wasn't what I asked for, by the way. "
Matt Bomer
Seventh
Way
Grade
" You're really lucky as an artist if you get a role that changes you as a person. "
Matt Bomer
Changes
You
Person
" To be honest with you, my physical state is usually dictated by the project I'm working on at a given time. "
Matt Bomer
Working
You
Honest
" While I feel that I have a great reservoir to draw from as an actor for lots of different roles, it is difficult because it can be an industry where it's people's jobs to thin-slice you really quickly and try to fit you into a niche in the market. "
Matt Bomer
Feel
You
Try
" 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. "
Matt Bomer
Life
Live
My Life