Matt Bomer Quotes

I was a late bloomer. I wasn't a child performer.

In Hollywood, you grow up quick.

You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for - if you are honest - you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one.

I grew up going to school and high school and then shooting a movie for a few months. It's an odd way to grow up and is kind of forced maturity.

We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.

My parents didn't want me to be a regular in a series. I was a working actor from time to time but they thought was a little too much being a star of a series. They wanted me to have a slightly more normal childhood.

When you're running around and playing, it's amazing ground for imagination, and that's really the biggest muscle you need for anything in the arts. I think it's probably the biggest training I've had.

Most writers, by the time they're 60, must have revisited their childhood a dozen times.

I was performing from the age of three.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. I was exposed to it since I was very small.

I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.

If I had to do a lot of promotion as a kid, it would have been very intense. I'm really glad I got to go through high school, have a college experience, and have the last five years since then, just... being a person.

I drew as a child, they tell me. I can vaguely remember doing it. And then I drew again in the late years at high school.

At 20 years old, I was better at playing with toys than I was as a kid.

I remember what it was like at age 6, not really understanding what was going on around me, but having all these grown-up thoughts running through my head about what I was facing, why this was happening.

As a kid, I was playing a character, so the film was not on my shoulders. I did 11 films out of which three were appreciated and remembered. At that time no one was following my career, so it was easier. But now when you are a mature adult, it's a different experience.

I was brought up as a normal kid.

From age 7 to about 37, I had a normal life and not a very easy one.

Listening to A. R. Rahman as a five-year-old opened my mind to a whole new set of creative dimensions.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

You can't be a kid in show business. You will not survive.

There are people a lot smarter than me investigating nature versus nurture who would have a lot to say about that, but I think it's an enormous privilege to be born into a family where my parents had enough time to read to me and listen to my stories and foster my imagination. It's a privilege to have time to investigate your imagination. And not to have, like, an amount of stress on you as a kid that prevents you from maturing creatively.

At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.

The ability to play pretend is something that everyone has access to; you see little kids doing it.

There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults.