Matt Bomer Quotes

I long to be ... Like Other People! The extraordinary, ungetatable, oddly cruel Other People, with their way of wantonly hurting and then accusing you of being thin-skinned, sulky, vindictive or ridiculous.

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

I will carry with me always the deep sense of what it feels like to be an outsider and how tough it was, how hard it was to adapt to this country.

I was an immigrant when I came, and one of my biggest things was I really wanted to fit in. I didn't want to be, 'Oh, look at that guy;' I wanted to be part of the crowd. Which is a weird thing, because the more successful I got, the more out of the crowd I became.

The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring.

If you try to use your head to think about things, people don't want to have anything to do with you

I am like the fish in the aquarium, thinking in a different language, adapting to a life that’s not my natural habitat. I am the people in the other cars, each with his or her own story, but passing too quickly to be noticed or understood.

If you move here from somewhere else, I often think if I move to Germany, for example, or if I move China and I go worship there I will understand and I'll be willing to give up a lot of my culture because I'm in somebody else's homeland. So I'm going to have to act German or Chinese, whatever that might mean.

They think they're normal, because they all do the same thing. Well, I'm going to pretend that I have drunk from the same well as them.

People adjust their behavior to fit the society they live in. They integrate because they have to. But what they are on the inside doesn't change.

Recall that people like to do what most people think it is right to do; recall too that people like to do what most people actually do.

As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if I were to begin it now?

At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.

If you make a show of going against the times, flaunting your unconventional ideas and unorthodox way, people will think that you only want attention and that you look down upon them.They will find away to punish you for making them feel inferior. It is far safer to blend in and nurture the common touch. Share your originality only with tolerant friends and those who are sure to appreciate your uniqueness.

I think all those rules are boring. About what people can and can't wear. Surely everyone should be able to wear whatever they like?

My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a kind that cannot be gratified here, and I am not enough in sympathy with our gross public to make up for the lack on the aesthetic side. One's friends are delightful; but we are none of us Americans, we don't think or feel as the Americans do, we are the wretched exotics produced in a European glass-house, the most displaced and useless class on earth!

God knows it's a sign of a really sick mind to see grown people, adults with responsibilities, wearing class rings.

I don't think I'm abnormal and I think that lets people down.

I think people take their behavioural tips from everyone else. So, if the director is calm and the lead actors are calm, no one wants to be the sore thumb. And I've remained friendly with everyone.

People come to New York to be different, but I go to Starbucks to be the same.

I get slightly irritated by people who say they're natural rebels because it just means that they're going to be against whatever anybody does, which is almost like saying you might as well leave it as it is. I'm naturally quite conformist, really. If I go to a country and they say, "You've got to drive on the right," I'm not going to drive on the left to show that I'm different. I'm able to stick to the law. I'm not a soldier for anything, either. I'm only a singer and I don't think it makes a difference what we sing.

It's Connecticut: being like the people around you is the whole point.

It is not always wise to appear singular.

I got tired of doing battle with people thinking I was a little weird because I wasn't in a band making happy, stilted music. The only people who really seem weird to me are people who think they're normal. People who think it's possible to be normal just by doing the same things that most people do. Is there a most people? I don't know. Television makes it seem like there is, but I think that might just be television.

Having someone who looks like us but thinks like them is worse than having no one at all.