Matt Bomer Quotes
I was always that fringe guy anyway, the guy who played football and then did the musicals.
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I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.
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Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
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Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works.
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I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
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The black community in Hollywood is very small and close-knit. Everyone has a common goal: to make a two-hour movie in 30 days.
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I don't know that I'd call myself an optimist.
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I certainly never saw myself as posh.
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I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
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There's not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers - Jim Henson, Walt Disney, Charlie Chaplin, people who understand the joy of the imagination.
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I definitely want to teach my daughter Spanish.
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Art is more engaging that propaganda.
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My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.
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Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.
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My parents were hugely supportive like that. I was always the best - it's so embarrassing, isn't it? I was always the best at everything.
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I'm someone who believes in 'live and let live,' and that applies to everything.
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When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.
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We get real results only in proportion to the real values we give.
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The only sin is the sin of being born.
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I feel particularly passionate about being a part of 'Rillington Place' because I've never had a job where I've felt so much responsibility and I've had to handle something with so much delicacy, because this story and these people were real.
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I need, absolutely, to be alone.
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It was football I enjoyed most. When I moved to L.A. to become a stand-up comedian, I thought it might be a good comedy hook to also be the punter for USFL club The L.A. Express, so I started practicing for the tryouts. Luckily, my stand-up took off, and I didn't need to do it.
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I was always that fringe guy anyway, the guy who played football and then did the musicals.
