Top 40 Quotes by 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.

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

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.

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

I like to just work with great directors.

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

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.

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.

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 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.