Quotes from Matt Bomer

I have more faith in Santa Claus now than I do an exec.

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.

It's a struggle for anybody to take their paradigms and set of beliefs and understandings and completely flip the script.

I don't think it's a bad thing to go out there and challenge yourself as an actor.

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.

I want to work with anyone who's passionate about telling a story. I obviously have a list of people I really love, but it's a really long list.

There's a security, a validity of knowing that it's legal. It's hard to put into words. It's just a feeling, I guess - something about saying vows in front of the people around you who love and support you.

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.

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

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 love 'Sunset Boulevard.' I love the writing, I love the performances, I love the camera work. I think it's a perfect movie.

I adore Jane Lynch, so just to get the opportunity to work with her was phenomenal.

For me, 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?

Just being attached to 'Superman' actually gave a great boost to my career.

It's so rare, especially as a younger actor, to find a role where it's not just one-dimensional and it's not just a stock leading man.

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.

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'm a kid that went to theater school. I thought I was going to be making my living doing plays regionally or in New York or on Broadway, and maybe if I got lucky I would do a movie here or there.

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.

Cote de Pablo is one of my best friends! We went to college together.

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 think anyone who's ever gone through adolescence and wanted something from their parents knows the basic tenets of a con.

I'd like to get a chance to wear two different hats in the business. I also think it would be really great to do an adaptation of a great novel.

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