I think when you play a role, you always have to be a defense attorney for that character.
Matt BomerI think your text [script] is everything; it's what informs you; it's what gives you the given circumstances. Then you take that and you add your own creativity and your own spin on things and you make it personal. That's what makes that character and that text unique to you, when you personalize it. I think that's where your job as an actor comes in.
Matt BomerWithout a safe haven, one of the most authentic parts of who you are, who you love, felt invisible to the world.
Matt BomerI took movement classes that I wore my double-breasted suits to. I worked on my elocution because people spoke differently then. I was really trying to toe the line. I think that if I had spoken exactly the way that people spoke back then, it probably would have alienated people.
Matt Bomer