I'm so thankful to have been born in the times that we live in.
Matt Bomer
If you're wearing suits and you want to create your own sense of style, get to the tailor.
I did a one-off episode of 'The New Normal' for Ryan Murphy, and that was the first time I played a gay role.
Cote de Pablo is one of my best friends! We went to college together.
Human imagination is so much more potent than anything we could put down in words.
My grandma blows my mind. To me, she exemplifies what a loving, accepting Christian is.
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.
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.
It's all about communication and a dialogue between individuals - get rid of the labels, get rid of the shame, get rid of the stigmas and just be your most authentic self.
I have more faith in Santa Claus now than I do an exec.
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.
Our high school offered a comprehensive drama department where I was doing 'Angels in America' at 14.
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.
One of the things about the con artist lifestyle is that all the romance is sort of sloppy and fast and loose.
Making a great television show is hard enough. To also tackle F. Scott - whoa.
I have, like, three suits to my name. But one thing I've learned is that when you dress up in real life, people treat you differently.
I think anyone who's ever gone through adolescence and wanted something from their parents knows the basic tenets of a con.
I remember I was really, really proud the first moment I got my insurance and also just going in to get my SAG card and filling out the form and realizing I was a member of all the unions I could be a part of as an actor. It was a really fulfilling experience for me.
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.
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.
I'm blessed to have a family, so it's not like I'm twiddling my thumbs. When I'm not working, that's where all my attention comes.
There's always a need for new superheroes. As society changes, the types of superheroes will probably change as well.
Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from.
You have to remember you're an artist and get hungry.
Just being attached to 'Superman' actually gave a great boost to my career.
I was always that fringe guy anyway, the guy who played football and then did the musicals.
When we were filming the first 'Magic Mike,' we obviously had a limited budget; it was an independent film. And we would entertain extras in between takes.
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?
I put on muscle really quick.
I love India. I've always been drawn to it, and I hope that I get to visit the country soon.
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 pretty much got busted for everything, but I definitely stretched out my boundaries as a kid, as well.
I think when you play a role, you always have to be a defense attorney for that character.
I was raised in a conservative Christian household. We weren't even allowed to watch 'secular' television, anything that was deemed not proper for Christians.
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.
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.
I'm so grateful to be born in the times I live in and to be provided the opportunities I've been given. I'd be wrong to complain.
I'm completely happy and fulfilled in my personal life.
I've definitely had crazy acting teachers.
You should be watching 'White Collar' because it's a fun, intelligent procedural infused with a lot of great character writing by Jeff Eastin.
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.
When I was in high school, there was no safe haven, there was no outlet for you to speak your mind.
Well, when you're playing a role, you have to think, 'What is ultimately motivating the character?'
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.
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.
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.
I think anytime you can show different colors and portray something that you haven't had a chance to do is always really refreshing as an actor.
In the end, someone is depending on me to show up on their set looking a specific way, whether that's 40 pounds overweight or 40 pounds underweight - or looking like a stripper.
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.
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.
