Latest Matt Bomer Quotes from Interviews

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• 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.

  Matt Bomer

  Men, Thinking, Play

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 28, 2016.

• 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.

  Matt Bomer

  Waiting, Rays, Done

  Source: collider.com

• I think Billy Ray has a lot of great stories up his sleeve. I've heard a lot of his plans for the show, should it go forward, and I think there's a lot in store for people, if it's given a chance.

  Matt Bomer

  Thinking, People, Rays

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 28, 2016.

• 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.

  Matt Bomer

  Character, Scott Fitzgerald, World

  "Matt Bomer on 'The Last Tycoon' and His Long-Gestating Montgomery Clift Biopic". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 28, 2016.

• 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, "Billy Ray has been living with this for two years before I even came on board, so I'm going with him."

  Matt Bomer

  Years, Two, Choices

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 28, 2016.

• 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.

  Matt Bomer

  Tycoons, Lasts, Speak

  "Matt Bomer on 'The Last Tycoon' and His Long-Gestating Montgomery Clift Biopic". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 28, 2016.

• I really saw Pat Brady, Kelsey Grammer's character's point of view that it's a business. It's show business. So, it was an incredible opportunity to work with really wonderful creatives and the script was fantastic. What was so interesting to me about the studio system was that a lot of the politics that were in play then are so really relevant to today.

  Matt Bomer

  Character, Opportunity, Views

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 28, 2016.

• 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.

  Matt Bomer

  Thinking, Class, People

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 28, 2016.

• I had just finished reading The Day of the Locust when this piece was brought to my attention, and I was like, "How do you create art in the system, the way it is?" Looking around the studio film landscape, there are all of these great superhero movies, which is fantastic, especially for my kids, but it's hard to find real art house films in the studio system, these days.

  Matt Bomer

  Art, Real, Reading

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 28, 2016.

• 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.

  Matt Bomer

  Dream, Art, America

  "Matt Bomer on 'The Last Tycoon' and His Long-Gestating Montgomery Clift Biopic". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 28, 2016.

• 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.

  Matt Bomer

  Play, Given, Ifs

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 28, 2016.

• 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.

  Matt Bomer

  Fire, Trying, Formulas

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 28, 2016.

• 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.

  Matt Bomer

  Heart, People, Temptation

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 28, 2016.

• 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."

  Matt Bomer

  Beautiful, Baby, Ultrasounds

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 28, 2016.

• 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.

  Matt Bomer

  Character, Unique, Looks

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 28, 2016.

• 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.

  Matt Bomer

  Unique, Voice, People

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 28, 2016.

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

  Matt Bomer

  Home, Trying, Yeah

  Interview with Fred Topel, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. October 6, 2015.

• 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.

  Matt Bomer

  Home, Scary, Littles

  Interview with Fred Topel, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. October 6, 2015.

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

  Matt Bomer

  Emotional, Helping, Help Me

  Interview with Fred Topel, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. October 6, 2015.

• 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.

  Matt Bomer

  Icons, Acting, Tomatoes

  "Matt Bomer Geeks Out Over Kathy Bates, Teases His New Ahs: Hotel Character". Interview with Fred Topel, editorialstaging.rottentomatoes.com. October 6, 2015.

• 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.

  Matt Bomer

  Fun, Character, Years

  Interview with Fred Topel, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. October 6, 2015.

• One of the many things I love about working with Ryan Murphy is that you're always thin-sliced in this business. You walk into a room and people want you to be how you look or how you're perceived or whatever it is in that 10 minutes that hey meet you. I think Ryan [Murphy] has an intuition that looks a little bit deeper and sees things that other people might not see in you - sometimes you might not even see in yourself - but that he knows are there and that he might want to get to grow and stretch with as an actor.

  Matt Bomer

  Thinking, People, Intuition

  "Matt Bomer Geeks Out Over Kathy Bates, Teases His New Ahs: Hotel Character". Interview with Fred Topel, editorialstaging.rottentomatoes.com. October 6, 2015.

• For me, a lot of these actors are new. For me, I only worked with Finn Whittrock and Michael Chiklis. So a lot of these actors are people I've been a huge fan of for years and are bucket-list actors for me to get to work with. It's pretty surreal now getting to step into scenes with them.You all get to find your characters together.

  Matt Bomer

  Character, Years, People

  Interview with Fred Topel, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. October 6, 2015.

• 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.

  Matt Bomer

  World, Actors, Freak

  Interview with Fred Topel, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. October 6, 2015.

• 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. Plus, it could never live up to the amazing mythology that everyone online has created for me, so I'll keep mum about it.

  Matt Bomer

  Life Is, Incredibles, Online

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 10, 2010.