Top 80 Matt Bomer Quotes

Certainly, when you’re dealing with more deep, emotional work and sensory work, for me, it helps me to just stay in it.

I want to work with anyone who’s passionate about telling a story. I obviously have a list of people I really love, but it’s a really long list.

There’s a security, a validity of knowing that it’s legal. It’s hard to put into words. It’s just a feeling, I guess – something about saying vows in front of the people around you who love and support you.

I have more faith in Santa Claus now than I do an exec.

I’m always so inspired by Jeff Eastin’s writing.

I had a very progressive drama teacher who would buy all the plays that were in New York and bring them to suburban Texas.

I think you work on the roles that draw you in and the stories you want to tell.

To be honest with you, my physical state is usually dictated by the project I’m working on at a given time.

To me, when you’re at a hotel, and your home environment is ultimately dictated by somebody else, I always find that a little bit oppressive and scary in a way. Especially if it’s not done well or not run well.

I was in romantic relationships with girls – whatever that means at 14.

I love ‘Sunset Boulevard.’ I love the writing, I love the performances, I love the camera work. I think it’s a perfect movie.

You have to remember you’re an artist and get hungry.

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.

While I feel that I have a great reservoir to draw from as an actor for lots of different roles, it is difficult because it can be an industry where it’s people’s jobs to thin-slice you really quickly and try to fit you into a niche in the market.

I’m completely happy and fulfilled in my personal life.

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.

I’d like to get a chance to wear two different hats in the business. I also think it would be really great to do an adaptation of a great novel.

Cote de Pablo is one of my best friends! We went to college together.

I’m a kid that went to theater school. I thought I was going to be making my living doing plays regionally or in New York or on Broadway, and maybe if I got lucky I would do a movie here or there.

I remember I was really, really proud the first moment I got my insurance and also just going in to get my SAG card and filling out the form and realizing I was a member of all the unions I could be a part of as an actor. It was a really fulfilling experience for me.

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.

I put on muscle really quick.

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.

I’ve been handling guns since I was a kid.

I’m so thankful to have been born in the times that we live in.

It’s a struggle for anybody to take their paradigms and set of beliefs and understandings and completely flip the script.

You’re really lucky as an artist if you get a role that changes you as a person.

It’s rare that you get to be a part of something that, hopefully, has some significance socially or historically.

I pretty much got busted for everything, but I definitely stretched out my boundaries as a kid, as well.

For me, I look at a pilot and go, ‘I see the landscape. I see the characters. I see the direction and the potential of the story.’ And I also go, ‘That didn’t work. I could change that. Maybe that works. I don’t know. We’ll see.’ For me, I look at it, as an actor, as what can I improve upon?

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.

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.

Activism isn’t beautiful and easy, or a bunch of people getting together and picketing; it’s a lot more complicated and difficult than that.

I sort of take cues from my grandparents.

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.

I remember taking my brother’s car out, pushing it down the driveway in neutral in the night, and going out joyriding with friends and getting flat tires and getting busted. My license was revoked by my dad. So, definitely, I was a kid. I was a teenage boy.

What we really have to do is stop the adjective before the job title – whether it’s ‘black actor,’ a ‘gay actor’ or anything actor.

It’s all about communication and a dialogue between individuals – get rid of the labels, get rid of the shame, get rid of the stigmas and just be your most authentic self.

I came from a long line of football players.

I have, like, three suits to my name. But one thing I’ve learned is that when you dress up in real life, people treat you differently.

There were, and still are, a lot of different points of view in the gay community. It’s not everybody holding hands and singing ‘Kumbaya.’ People have very different perspectives.

When I was 27, I felt old. I didn’t feel healthy. I just wasn’t taking care of my body, and I had a body that wanted me to take care of it.

Certain characters are sticky, especially if they help you grow up as a person, I think.

I like ‘Citizen Kane,’ I like ‘The Godfather,’ all the ones that everyone should see, whether you’re an actor or not.

I think every guy and girl would love to get to play Superman at some point in their life.

I used to go to sports camp every summer. I’d make a lot of new friends, and it was all athletic. It was basically a place for parents to send their kids to run out all their summer energy for two weeks.

I would say confidence and security and comfortability in one’s own skin. I think that’s so attractive. Truly.

I’m from a very athletic family, and I thoroughly enjoyed sports as a kid, but acting was a way of expressing myself and having fun. It was something I found on my own.

Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that’s not where equality comes from.

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.

I had a wild imagination as a kid – wild! – and I was outside all the time, swinging around in trees by myself.

As a gay man in Hollywood, I certainly understand what it means to be in it but not of it, to be marginalized at times and kept out of certain clubs.

I’m blessed to have a family, so it’s not like I’m twiddling my thumbs. When I’m not working, that’s where all my attention comes.

‘The Kids Are All Right’ is amazing. The performances are insanely good. Julianne Moore is going to wreck you. This is the best I’ve ever seen her, and I’ve seen everything she’s ever done. I like the story, and I think it’s a great alternative to the big summer popcorn blockbusters.

It was a gift to get to play a gay role that was written in a three-dimensional, human way.

There’s always a need for new superheroes. As society changes, the types of superheroes will probably change as well.

I try to just live my life and do my work, and the rest will just fall into place, as it may. As it will.

My favorite thing about working with Lady Gaga is really just the sheer level of creativity she brings to the table. And she’s really one of the most intelligent people I’ve ever known. Her intelligence is equaled by her heart.

I got a .30-30 for Christmas in the seventh grade. It wasn’t what I asked for, by the way.

I would sit on the swing set and swing literally for two hours, just, like, imagining things. Like, what if this happened, and what if I was this guy?

I can safely say that I had an incredibly difficult and trying past growing up and trying to be an artist and standing up as who I am in this world.

One of the ways I learned how to act, really, is by having secrets and having to function as a kid in a public school in suburban Bible Belt Texas.

I think TV, at least most immediately, perhaps more so than film, is a reflection of society.

Well, when you’re playing a role, you have to think, ‘What is ultimately motivating the character?’

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.

It’s not like the right for gay people to marry just happened.

Working on TV can be quite insular.

I was cold-calling agents when I was, like, 9 years old, and I was like, ‘Mom, I need this thing called a headshot.’

Kids aren’t born to be bullies, they’re taught to be bullies.

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.

There’s a level of love that really dissolves a lot of egotism and self-absorption.

When I was 8 years old, I asked my parents to get me head shots, and they were like, ‘What are you talking about? Go outside and play!’ I’m so glad they did.

Human imagination is so much more potent than anything we could put down in words.

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.

I never feel more confident and comfortable than when I’m wearing a Tom Ford suit.

I like endings that let your imagination do a lot of the work.

Oh, I think Janie Bryant is a genius. I mean, I think she changed menswear almost single-handedly with what she did on ‘Mad Men.’

I would love to just keep working with really great directors who really inspire me.

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.

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.