Matt Bomer Quotes

#1. Human beings are good, they have shadow, every single one of us has redeeming qualities and every single one of us has qualities that people can hold against us. That's what makes us human.

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#2. 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.

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#3. I consider 'White Collar' my home base. I'm so lucky to get to play a character that's very multifaceted and the writers take risks on and never get into a staid process with.

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#4. New York City is one of the greatest places on the planet. You have the best in food, art, theatre, and definitely people-watching.

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#5. Without a safe haven, one of the most authentic parts of who you are, who you love, felt invisible to the world.

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#6. Kids aren't born to be bullies, they're taught to be bullies.

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

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

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

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#10. Anybody who is rude to anyone in the service industry is automatically out.

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#11. 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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#12. Look, none of the artists who I admire or respect have ever shied away from a role because it might make them unpopular with somebody.

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#13. Having done television for almost 20 years now, a pilot is kind of like a rough draft. It's like bringing people into your ultrasound and hooking up to the monitor and going, "Isn't my baby beautiful?" "Yeah. I can only see the outline of it, but it looks like it might be."

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#14. Just being attached to 'Superman' actually gave a great boost to my career.

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#15. I'm completely happy and fulfilled in my personal life.

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#16. It's better to be in love than watch it.

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#17. I took movement classes that I wore my double-breasted suits to. I worked on my elocution because people spoke differently then. I was really trying to toe the line. I think that if I had spoken exactly the way that people spoke back then, it probably would have alienated people

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#18. My favorite actors are people who I don't know anything about, and I can project any character onto them.

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#19. 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.

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#20. I'm a pretty chill person. I'm kind of a homebody and I like to just hang out with friends and have dinner. I'm not, you know - I'm definitely not Neal Caffrey in the sense that I'm not, you know, drinking a $500 bottle of wine at a nightclub. I'm just - I'm pretty chill.

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#21. Well, when you're playing a role, you have to think, 'What is ultimately motivating the character?'

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#22. 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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#23. I think anyone who's ever gone through adolescence and wanted something from their parents knows the basic tenets of a con.

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#24. 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.

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#25. The best experience for me at CMU was being on stage so much, getting that comfort ability and learning that technique you can use with any type of work because you're comfortable with it and know your skill as an actor.

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#26. You can't please everybody. There's that old saying that there's no sure formula for success, but the only sure fire formula for failure is to try to please everyone. You're not going to do that.

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#27. Playing athletics, playing a lot of different sports, going to drama school ... I was one of those kids who wanted to do everything, so I ended up being pretty average at everything.

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#28. I lived in several hotels, yeah. You have to try to make it home.

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#29. I think when you play a role, you always have to be a defense attorney for that character.

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#30. I've never cared about how successful or how big I was going to be. I just wanted to be part of a story that affected people, made them laugh or cry. To me, that was more important than having my face on some billboard.

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#31. My standard uniform is a T-shirt and jeans.

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

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#33. 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.

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#34. 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.

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#35. I don't think it's a bad thing to go out there and challenge yourself as an actor.

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#36. If you're wearing suits and you want to create your own sense of style, get to the tailor.

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#37. My parents raised me right, so I always open doors for people and try to have good manners.

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#38. I like to sing and leave songs on voicemail. It comes from the heart.

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#39. As actors you're always going to take certain roles that are in your comfort zone and take ones that aren't.

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#40. 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.

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#41. 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.

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#42. I at least felt the obligation to speak clearly [in 'The last Tycoon']. This is pre-Brando and pre-James Dean. Nobody mumbled back then.

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#43. Never forget your manners. They go a long way in both your business and personal life. If you look and act like you are making an effort, it will be appreciated.

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#44. I like strong opinions - I'll take that any day over someone who agrees with everything.

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#45. I like characters with flaws, who have shadow.

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#46. 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.

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#47. When I was in high school, there was no safe haven, there was no outlet for you to speak your mind.

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#48. 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.

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#49. Forget horror icon, Kety Bates is an icon. She's an acting icon. I was raised on so many of her films, everything from Misery to Fried Green Tomatoes to Delores Claiborne, all films that I've watched multiple times and been inspired by.

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

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#51. I've been a con artist since I was 16 and trying to get my dad to buy me a car. I never succeeded, but I learnt a lot of tactics.

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#52. 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.

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#53. I like to just work with great directors.

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

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#55. I really just try to focus on my job, which is to be an actor, and outside that, the cards fall where they may, and on not getting caught up in how people react to certain things. That's a death trap creatively.

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#56. When you are the avatar for the writer/director, a lot of times, I just trusted him. If he had a choice, even if it wasn't necessarily what was my first impulse, I was like, "This guy [Billy Ray] has been living with this for two years before I even came on board, so I'm going with him."

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#57. 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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#58. Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from.

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#59. 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.

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#60. 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.

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#61. 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.

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#62. 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.

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#63. Don't worry if people think you're good. Make this your experience. And find out what makes you unique as an artist. You don't get the opportunity to do that as much in the real world.

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#64. It's so rare, especially as a younger actor, to find a role where it's not just one-dimensional and it's not just a stock leading man.

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#65. I like not to know, unless it's something that I need to know, specifically, for how I color a performance.

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

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#67. 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.

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#68. I'm a long time [Scott] Fitzgerald fan, as probably everyone in America is. And I've always been fascinated by that theme of, what is the price of the American dream and what parts of your soul do you walk away with? The conflict of art versus commerce was also very interesting to me.

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#69. If you don't like Superman, something's wrong with you!

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#70. In that Freak Show environment, I got to spend time with so many of the actors who were part of that world. I just had the best time ever.

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#71. I see myself working, making a living and doing projects that I'm passionate about, regardless of the medium.

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