If you’re wearing suits and you want to create your own sense of style, get to the tailor.
Matt Bomer
Outside of, as a kid, just wanting to be able to fly and run faster than a speeding locomotive and being able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, we’d like to hope that, when push comes to shove, we can do the right thing. I think as long as there is that hope in our society and in the zeitgeist of superheroes, Superman will be relevant.
Matt Bomer
My standard uniform is a T-shirt and jeans.
Matt Bomer
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?
Matt Bomer
I had a wild imagination as a kid – wild! – and I was outside all the time, swinging around in trees by myself.
Matt Bomer
I would say confidence and security and comfortability in one’s own skin. I think that’s so attractive. Truly.
Matt Bomer
We all have a great deal of admirable qualities, and we all have some that could probably be improved upon.
Matt Bomer
There’s always a need for new superheroes. As society changes, the types of superheroes will probably change as well.
Matt Bomer
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.
Matt Bomer
I got a .30-30 for Christmas in the seventh grade. It wasn’t what I asked for, by the way.
Matt Bomer
I like endings that let your imagination do a lot of the work.
Matt Bomer
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 My license was revoked by my dad.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.
Matt Bomer
One of the things about the con artist lifestyle is that all the romance is sort of sloppy and fast and loose.
Matt Bomer
I sort of take cues from my grandparents.
Matt Bomer
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.
Matt Bomer
Kids aren’t born to be bullies, they’re taught to be bullies.
Matt Bomer
I grew up on theater, and honestly, I’m trying to figure out a way with a family and kids and living in Los Angeles to get back to the stage because it is my first love.
Matt Bomer
It’s so hard for me to let go of ‘The Normal Heart.’
Matt Bomer
I think when you play a role, you always have to be a defense attorney for that character.
Matt Bomer
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.
Matt Bomer
I love ‘Sunset Boulevard.’ I love the writing, I love the performances, I love the camera work. I think it’s a perfect movie.
Matt Bomer
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.
Matt Bomer
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.
Matt Bomer
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.
Matt Bomer
I feel very, very thankful to have the family that I do.
Matt Bomer
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.
Matt Bomer
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.
Matt Bomer
I’m completely happy and fulfilled in my personal life.
Matt Bomer
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.
Matt Bomer
Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that’s not where equality comes from.
Matt Bomer
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.
Matt Bomer
As actors you’re always going to take certain roles that are in your comfort zone and take ones that aren’t.
Matt Bomer
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.
Matt Bomer
I like to just work with great directors.
Matt Bomer
My favorite actors are people who I don’t know anything about, and I can project any character onto them.
Matt Bomer
I’ve definitely had crazy acting teachers.
Matt Bomer
I never feel more confident and comfortable than when I’m wearing a Tom Ford suit.
Matt Bomer
Well, when you’re playing a role, you have to think, ‘What is ultimately motivating the character?’
Matt Bomer
I pretty much got busted for everything, but I definitely stretched out my boundaries as a kid, as well.
Matt Bomer
When I was in high school, there was no safe haven, there was no outlet for you to speak your mind.
Matt Bomer
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.
Matt Bomer
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.
Matt Bomer
To be honest with you, my physical state is usually dictated by the project I’m working on at a given time.
Matt Bomer
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.
Matt Bomer
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.
Matt Bomer
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.
Matt Bomer
I don’t think it’s a bad thing to go out there and challenge yourself as an actor.
Matt Bomer
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.
Matt Bomer
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.
Matt Bomer
Cote de Pablo is one of my best friends! We went to college together.
Matt Bomer
I think anyone who’s ever gone through adolescence and wanted something from their parents knows the basic tenets of a con.
Matt Bomer
New York City is one of the greatest places on the planet. You have the best in food, art, theatre, and definitely people-watching.
Matt Bomer