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" You're really lucky as an artist if you get a role that changes you as a person. "
Matt Bomer
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" 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.' "
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" I think anyone who's ever gone through adolescence and wanted something from their parents knows the basic tenets of a con. "
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" 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. "
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" New York City is one of the greatest places on the planet. You have the best in food, art, theatre, and definitely people-watching. "
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" I never feel more confident and comfortable than when I'm wearing a Tom Ford suit. "
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" It's a struggle for anybody to take their paradigms and set of beliefs and understandings and completely flip the script. "
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" 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. "
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" I have, like, three suits to my name. But one thing I've learned is that when you dress up in real life, people treat you differently. "
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" I've been handling guns since I was a kid. "
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" When it's a really dark emotional scene, you have to make the effort to shake it off, at the end of the day, before you go home to your kids and try to be a normal human being. You definitely want to make that effort to shake it off. "
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" Just being attached to 'Superman' actually gave a great boost to my career. "
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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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" 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 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. "
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" I think anytime you can show different colors and portray something that you haven't had a chance to do is always really refreshing as an actor. "
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" I married up. He's an intelligent and kind soul. "
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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 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. "
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" There were, and still are, a lot of different points of view in the gay community. It's not everybody holding hands and singing 'Kumbaya.' People have very different perspectives. "
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" I had a wild imagination as a kid - wild! - and I was outside all the time, swinging around in trees by myself. "
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