Top 66 Matt Bomer Quotes

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.

When we were filming the first ‘Magic Mike,’ we obviously had a limited budget; it was an independent film. And we would entertain extras in between takes.

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

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.

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

I married up. He’s an intelligent and kind soul.

It’s rare that you get to play a great role that has an arc.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 see what kids in the business have to watch. It’s tough to do.

My standard uniform is a T-shirt and jeans.

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 felt a responsibility to Simon and to our kids to be able to live with integrity and not have some strange split psychology of ‘This is who my dad is at home, and this is who he is to the public.’

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I love India. I’ve always been drawn to it, and I hope that I get to visit the country soon.

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

I adore Jane Lynch, so just to get the opportunity to work with her was phenomenal.

I’d like to really make the Montgomery Clift biopic happen.

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.

Working on TV can be quite insular.

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

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.

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.

My parents knew if they kept me active, I’d stay out of trouble.

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

I put on muscle really quick.

We didn’t get to see a lot of movies in my house growing up, so the first time I got to go to the movies – I think it was ‘E.T.’ – I was like, ‘Oh my God, somebody else gets my imagination!’

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

Everyone needs a reset button so you can start your day without anxiety. For some people, it’s running; for some, it’s going to the gym. For me, it’s meditation.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I did a one-off episode of ‘The New Normal’ for Ryan Murphy, and that was the first time I played a gay role.

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

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.

Just being attached to ‘Superman’ actually gave a great boost to my career.

It’s so hard for me to let go of ‘The Normal Heart.’

I feel very, very thankful to have the family that I do.

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.

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

We all have a great deal of admirable qualities, and we all have some that could probably be improved upon.