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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My son, Walker, has a band called The Dust Busters. You know, he plays banjo, fiddle, guitar, and mandolin, so a lot of my interest in that kind of music comes from him constantly listening to this stuff. He's taught me the history of it. It's remarkable how these young kids are now turned on to more traditional old-time music.
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I would be copping out if I stayed in the myth of the '60s.
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I haven't been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It's been a while.
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Some people in LA are addicted. They have to be here. My personal life is stronger than my professional life, in terms of priorities.
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The one piece of advice I would give to all girlfriends - or guy friends, too, I guess - is that if you're going to have a fight in a Baja Fresh parking lot, make sure one of you has an available pair of sunglasses because whoever is crying is going to want to wear them.
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I was always that fringe guy anyway, the guy who played football and then did the musicals.
