Matt Bomer Quotes

I believe that if I come home from a stressful day on the set, I just have to leave it there.

I have a very healthy relationship to my work, and I find that if a scene is working, no matter how intense it is, you have the catharsis on screen, and you can let it go. I think it's, if at the end of the day you feel like you haven't cracked it, that's when you go home and it's more difficult to switch off.

Some teachers feel that if they ask for emotional help, they're a failure. But teaching is a team sport.

You can never turn the clock back and, since we're talking about mental health, I would stress that.

I think when you're a mom and an actor, it forces you to leave any actor neuroses behind and just concentrate on the work.

I couldn't be with someone who is depressed all the time.

There are no tricks to balancing work and family. It is a struggle all the time, and you just do your best. I think men are much better at compartmentalising.

There is so much stimuli coming at young people, you don't even have time to grieve before something new happens. We are desensitized to the issues.

If I didn't have my profession, I think I would be sitting in a nuthouse. But I have been unceasingly at work, and this has been very healthy for me. So I had no need for therapy.

Mental health is personal for our whole band. As touring musicians, self-care can quickly become make it or break it on the road.

Mental health isn't all of me, but it's a massive part of my journey and a massive part of my whole being.

It's such a difficult thing for women, especially, to admit when we're not coping, because we're supposed to be all right with all the different roles we're born with and are piled on us later on.

I did speak to a counsellor after hitting rock bottom. It really did help, talking to somebody that didn't know me and just pouring my heart out to them in a few sessions.

I have to be able to shake my imaginary life from my real life when I walk through the door with my children who immediately need a lot from me. It's actually kind of a relief, especially if it was a dark day on set.

My life has gotten a little more complicated than my ability to describe it. That used to be the definition of madness, now it's just continuous overload.

This is about all the bad days in the world. I used to have some little bad days, and I kept them in a little box. And one day, I threw them out into the yard. "Oh, it's just a couple little innocent bad days." Well, we had a big rain. I don't know what it was growing in but I think we used to put eggshells out there and coffee grounds, too. Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me. Choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothin'. They're your days. Choke 'em!

Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.

At the end of the day, we're just trying to prevent each other from going mad.

I used to be so intensely preoccupied by unhappiness... now there are times where you might get down, but you can move on much faster now.

I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its toll on all my relationships, on my physical health, my emotional and mental health.

I just don't deal with the negativity. I can't get involved in that side of it. I don't understand it, and you can't let it take away from your life and what you are trying to do.

When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought.

I am a human being. When you are frustrated, you do cry. It's more than once that I cried.

I have not spent years in therapy; I tried therapy in my mid-twenties, and it did not go very well. I just thought, 'This is so not for me. I would rather talk to one of my girlfriends.' I'm not at a point in my life when I'm analyzing too much. I have young children, and I'm just pretty much crazed.

I'm a very emotional person. If I've got something on my mind, that would stop me from giving my best.