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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 think when someone knows who they are and is comfortable and confident with that, I think a lot of the typical, aesthetic things sort of fall by the wayside.
I adore Jane Lynch, so just to get the opportunity to work with her was phenomenal.
I sort of take cues from my grandparents.
Thankfully, I have a very full life. I'm married with kids, so I have a lot of things to focus on, other projects either in post-production or pre-production, so you just do the best you can.
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.
It's a struggle for anybody to take their paradigms and set of beliefs and understandings and completely flip the script.
I would say confidence and security and comfortability in one's own skin. I think that's so attractive. Truly.
I never feel more confident and comfortable than when I'm wearing a Tom Ford suit.
Our high school offered a comprehensive drama department where I was doing 'Angels in America' at 14.
Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from.
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 married up. He's an intelligent and kind soul.
Well, when you're playing a role, you have to think, 'What is ultimately motivating the character?'
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.
It's rare that you get to play a great role that has an arc.
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.
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.
I tend toward more adult fare, and I would love to do a voice in an animated film or something the boys could go see, but at a certain point, I made peace with myself about it.
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.
It was a gift to get to play a gay role that was written in a three-dimensional, human way.
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.
My parents knew if they kept me active, I'd stay out of trouble.
It's rare that you get to be a part of something that, hopefully, has some significance socially or historically.
For some reason, they always gave me a fat suit in high-school productions. If there was a character who needed to be robust, they gave me a fat suit, and I put on a silly voice.
I really just try to focus on my job, which is to be an actor, and outside that, the cards fall where they may, and on not getting caught up in how people react to certain things. That's a death trap creatively.
There's a level of love that really dissolves a lot of egotism and self-absorption.
I think TV, at least most immediately, perhaps more so than film, is a reflection of society.
I got a .30-30 for Christmas in the seventh grade. It wasn't what I asked for, by the way.
I love 'Sunset Boulevard.' I love the writing, I love the performances, I love the camera work. I think it's a perfect movie.
I like 'Citizen Kane', I like 'The Godfather', all the ones that everyone should see, whether you're an actor or not.
I have more faith in Santa Claus now than I do an exec.
How can you not have preconceived notions and expectations of who Kelsey Grammer is gonna be? He's been in my living room since my TV was on. And he exceeded them all, somehow. He's such a beautiful and open-hearted collaborator and mentor and such a great family man. I was just lucky to get to work with him and learn from him.
Certainly, when you're dealing with more deep, emotional work and sensory work, for me, it helps me to just stay in it.
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.
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?
Human imagination is so much more potent than anything we could put down in words.
I like endings that let your imagination do a lot of the work.
My favorite actors are people who I don't know anything about, and I can project any character onto them.
Working on TV can be quite insular.
I put on muscle really quick.
I think when you play a role, you always have to be a defense attorney for that character.
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.
When I was in high school, there was no safe haven, there was no outlet for you to speak your mind.
I had a wild imagination as a kid - wild! - and I was outside all the time, swinging around in trees by myself.
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.
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.
I think you work on the roles that draw you in and the stories you want to tell.
I never really endeavored to hide anything. But there were times I chose not to relegate my history to the back page of a magazine, which to me is sort of akin to putting your biography on a bathroom wall.
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.
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