Matt Bomer Quotes

You've got a great chance in college to do all sorts of terrible irresponsible things, and you should totally do them. I mean, make huge mistakes. This is the time in your life if you screw up, it's okay because you can bounce back from it.

You push the limits and you find out where the limits are.

I think sometimes bad behaviour can be liberating for certain people. They need to behave badly to find themselves - to go off path to find their path. You see it with kids all the time: They're testing boundaries, and I think that's healthy.

You don't know what you can get away with until you try.

The fun part for me is to just really push that envelope.

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

I want to try everything I can; I want to push my boundaries and experiment with characters and genres that I have yet to try.

I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out.

I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.

I like pushing boundaries.

I think it's certainly natural to try new things as you grow up and get older!

I've always been a guy who likes to stretch my limits - to find out if I have any, really.

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.

You can't do things unexpected in life if you're not willing to take a risk, and it's easier to risk your own life than it is for your parent to watch you take risks. It's very, very hard for parents to see children doing things that aren't a solid path. I've been through that.

We had the freedom to make mistakes. That's something very important.

I was very good until I left home to go to a little college in West Virginia, and then I started to break some rules.

Growing up, I probably raised a bit more hell than I should have.

Nobody knows what you have in you until you've done it, so I just keep pushing those boundaries, and I figure it will all come out in the wash.

I'm definitely an actor first, but it's fun to kind of, you know, push your boundaries and see if you can do things that have scared you a little bit your whole life.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

You're still young. Don't panic. It's hard to know what you should be doing in your 20s. Try different things, have some fun, and see what happens.

Sometimes I learn by someone giving me warnings and giving me advice about what to do next. And other times, a lot of times, I have to put my hand into the fire.

I want to scare myself when I choose what I want to work on.

You have to try things in life.