Matt Bomer Quotes
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It's rare that you get to be a part of something that, hopefully, has some significance socially or historically.
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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.
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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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I'm so thankful to have been born in the times that we live in.
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I don't care about the size of the roles, or how they're marketed or billed or anything like that. I would love to be a part of stories that tell us about where we've come from, where we are, where we're going - with great directors.
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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 think every guy and girl would love to get to play Superman at some point in their life.
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I adore Jane Lynch, so just to get the opportunity to work with her was phenomenal.
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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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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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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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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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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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I was always that fringe guy anyway, the guy who played football and then did the musicals.
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It's so hard for me to let go of 'The Normal Heart.'
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Working on TV can be quite insular.
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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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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 put on muscle really quick.
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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.
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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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There's a level of love that really dissolves a lot of egotism and self-absorption.
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You're really lucky as an artist if you get a role that changes you as a person.