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" There was so much going on in 1936 with the height of the Great Depression and the Spanish Civil War and Germany on the move and all of those things. There was a tension in the air. "

Matt Bomer

War

Great Depression

Depression

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" 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. "

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" When I was in high school, there was no safe haven, there was no outlet for you to speak your mind. "

" What we really have to do is stop the adjective before the job title - whether it's 'black actor,' a 'gay actor' or anything actor. "

" 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. "

" I came from a long line of football players. "

" 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. "

" Our high school offered a comprehensive drama department where I was doing 'Angels in America' at 14. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from. "

" I like to just work with great directors. "

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" 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 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. "

" There's a level of love that really dissolves a lot of egotism and self-absorption. "

" 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. "

" There's always a need for new superheroes. As society changes, the types of superheroes will probably change as well. "

" I want to work with anyone who's passionate about telling a story. I obviously have a list of people I really love, but it's a really long list. "

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

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

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

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