Matt Bomer Quotes

I don't read reviews and I don't know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.

You know, it's hard sometimes to just detach yourself from what you're doing.

I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it's too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective - your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else.

It can be very frustrating and very deflating to be constantly defined and described by other people, so I've stopped reading anything written about me, and I find it much healthier. I just sort of concentrate on what I do and don't worry too much about that.

I try to not read about myself. I think it's easier to have it out of sight and out of mind.

I've worked a lot. I don't like to watch myself. I don't go to the movies unless I have to go to the premiere.

I'm not trying to come back and change the perception of what people think about me. They can think what they want to, man.

I like to get off my phone because when I sit with my phone, I don't feel creative cos I'm just sitting reading other people's things.

Sobriety has opened my mind and unlocked parts of me that I didn't even realize existed.

We are all scrutinised. Everyone. Man, woman, everyone, especially if you are in the public eye in any way on social media. It's about doing you and not worrying too much about other things. Only worry about the things that are really worth worrying about.

What other people think of me is their problem - not mine.

I was very ambitious as a young actor, but I wasn't good at being ambitious.

I would love to be producing movies, acting in more movies, and doing projects that are Oscar-worthy... have kids, be married, all that, being a normal human being as well, balancing it all out.

I didn't take into account the critical tsunami that comes with having work going out. I've gone from being a complete narcissist, someone who googles my own name, to someone who has to work separately from that to avoid creative paralysis.

Only the individual who has come to terms with his self can have a dispassionate attitude toward the world.

I never think of myself as an actor who takes work home with them.

I feel like if I show people how good I'm doing with myself, then it'll bring people to want me to manage them as well.

Don't take anything personally. Even when a situation seems so personal, even if others insult you directly, it has nothing to do with you. Their point of view and opinion come from all the programming they received growing up. When you take things personally, you feel offended and your reaction is to defend your beliefs and create conflict. You make something big out of something so little because you have the need to be right and make everybody else wrong.

Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly

When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it.

It's definitely the biggest lesson - not to take things personally. But it's also the hardest one.

I've been popular and unpopular successful and unsuccessful loved and loathed and I know how meaningless it all is. Therefore I feel free to take whatever risks I want.

I stopped reading articles about myself. Even if it's not bad, I think actively caring about people's daily perception of you makes you second-guess everything. I am very happily not paranoid right now.

I'm a really private person. I just love my work. I feel like celebrity has changed so much, in this culture. Ever since they started with those reality shows and people that aren't actors but they're really famous, it's gotten very different from when I started out. So, the idea of ever becoming more than what I had is not really what I want.

When you realize that people treat you according to how they see themselves rather than how you really are, you are less likely to be affected by their behavior.