Matt Bomer Quotes
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Our high school offered a comprehensive drama department where I was doing 'Angels in America' at 14.
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There's always a need for new superheroes. As society changes, the types of superheroes will probably change as well.
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There aren't a lot of supernatural things that I'm scared or super terrified of, but clowns are definitely on that 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 never really endeavored to hide anything. But there were times I chose not to relegate my history to the back page of a magazine, which to me is sort of akin to putting your biography on a bathroom wall.
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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.
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Unfortunately, in some parts of the country, some kids are taught at an early age that being different is somehow bad or wrong or worthy of ridicule.
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I adore Jane Lynch, so just to get the opportunity to work with her was phenomenal.
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I'm so thankful to have been born in the times that we live in.
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I had a very progressive drama teacher who would buy all the plays that were in New York and bring them to suburban Texas.
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Thankfully, I have a very full life. I'm married with kids, so I have a lot of things to focus on, other projects either in post-production or pre-production, so you just do the best you can.
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I think TV, at least most immediately, perhaps more so than film, is a reflection of society.
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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.
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I put on muscle really quick.
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Working on TV can be quite insular.
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I was always that fringe guy anyway, the guy who played football and then did the musicals.
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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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It's so hard for me to let go of 'The Normal Heart.'
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There's a level of love that really dissolves a lot of egotism and self-absorption.
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For every role, I brought certain elements of the character. Even on 'White Collar' over six years, I tried to keep the set fun and breezy and Howard Hawks-y and very of the tone of the show.
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You're really lucky as an artist if you get a role that changes you as a person.
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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.
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I love 'Jaws,' and I think Robert Shaw's performance in 'Jaws' is one of the best screen performances of all time. I am a massive Robert Shaw fan. I think he's a brilliant, brilliant talent and we lost him way before his time.
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I did a one-off episode of 'The New Normal' for Ryan Murphy, and that was the first time I played a gay role.