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I had a normal childhood where I was able to cultivate my own creativity, and I don't think I would have been ready for this crazy business at 8 years old.
Matt Bomer
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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.
Matt Bomer
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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.
Matt Bomer
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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.
Matt Bomer
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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.
Matt Bomer
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It was a gift to get to play a gay role that was written in a three-dimensional, human way.
Matt Bomer
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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
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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.
Matt Bomer
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I don't think it's a bad thing to go out there and challenge yourself as an actor.
Matt Bomer
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When you really put your heart and soul into something, the temptation is to try to be in control of circumstances, however you can, and looking and seeing how people are responding. But I realized, early on, that that was just not going to be a healthy thing for me to do.
Matt Bomer
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I got a .30-30 for Christmas in the seventh grade. It wasn't what I asked for, by the way.
Matt Bomer
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You're not going to do that. If you gave your best to what you were given, at the time, it's going to play out how it's going to play out.
Matt Bomer
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I don't know anybody who walks through life all the time in the doldrums, constantly serious and morose. But that's become what we generalize as drama.
Matt Bomer
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I lived in several hotels, yeah. You have to try to make it home.
Matt Bomer
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Kids aren't born to be bullies, they're taught to be bullies.
Matt Bomer
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I think every guy and girl would love to get to play Superman at some point in their life.
Matt Bomer
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In the end, someone is depending on me to show up on their set looking a specific way, whether that's 40 pounds overweight or 40 pounds underweight - or looking like a stripper.
Matt Bomer
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I think if you start to think too much about things that are completely out of control, it will just drive you crazy as an actor.
Matt Bomer
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I love that Amazon has this incredibly unique, diplomatic process where people's voices are heard, and we're using this great interconnectedness we have, via the Internet, to weigh in and to have a say in what we want to see and what we don't.
Matt Bomer
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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
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I came from a long line of football players.
Matt Bomer
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It's rare that you get to be a part of something that, hopefully, has some significance socially or historically.
Matt Bomer
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Certainly, when you're dealing with more deep, emotional work and sensory work, for me, it helps me to just stay in it.
Matt Bomer
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I learned a lot about self-reinvention. How you can be born Milton Sternberg in the Bronx and then become Monroe Stahr in Hollywood.
Matt Bomer
