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Matt Bomer Biography

Matthew Staton Bomer (born October 11, 1977) is an American actor, producer, director and singer. He is known for his versatility and for both his performances in successful and independent films and for his performances in television series. Bomer's accolades include a Golden Globe Award and one Primetime Emmy Award nomination.

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

Character, Defense, Play, Thinking

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

Felt, Invisible, Safe, Safe Haven, World

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

Color, Like, Needs, Performance, Performances, Unless

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.

Big, Face, Laughing, People, Successful

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.

Character, Fun, Role, Set, Years

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? So, to have it out there and judged solely on its own merit is really a unique experience for me.

Character, Direction, Experience, Know, Looks, Unique

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.

Artist, Difficult, Growing, Growing Up, Past, World

Billy [Ray] is a preternatural enthusiast. He would say things to me like, "Now, let me tell you about Episode 3. " I'm a big superstitious, having done television for quite some time, and I would say, "Billy, I can't wait to hear about it, but let's just stay here for right now, see what happens, and enjoy this moment.

Done, Having, Rays, Right, Tell, Waiting

The last thing I want to do is having someone get behind a Montgomery Clift biopic, and then just do the first script that came out. Sometimes it takes a long time for these things to gestate. And I'm only going to do it if it's the right story that's told for the right reason, and that's relevant to this day and age, as much as it pays homage to who this man was. Should that happen during the time when I'm still young enough to play him, perfect. And if not, hopefully someone else will get to play him because I do think it's an incredible story.

Clift, Men, Play, Right, Thinking

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.

People, Qualities, Quality, Shadow, Single

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

Born, Bullies, Bully, Kids, Taught

I very comprehensively studied Irving Thalberg and his biographies. He's who [Scott]Fitzgerald roughly modeled the character after. He worked for him, as a writer, when he was at MGM. And, of course, I revisited the novel and the politics of MGM and the studio system at the time and familiarized myself with the world. There was a great deal of physical and literary work that went into it.

Character, Course, Familiarized, Physical, Scott Fitzgerald, World

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.

Class, Exactly, People, Probably, Think, Thinking

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

Actors, Certain, Comfort, Ones, Roles, Take

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. "

Baby, Beautiful, Rough, Ultrasound, Ultrasounds, Yeah

My standard uniform is a T-shirt and jeans.

Jeans, Standard, T Shirt, Uniform, Uniforms

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

Dealing, Deep, Emotional, Help Me, Helping, Work

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,' Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from. Equality comes from treating everybody the same regardless of who they are. I hope the media and the press catches on to that because it's time to move out of 1992.

1992, Adjective, Gay, Jobs, Moving, People

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.

Acting, Bates, Delores, Icons, Times, Tomatoes

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

Comfortable, Feels, Suits, Tom, Toms, Wearing

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