Matt Bomer Quotes

I'm not what you'd call a Method actor.

I am not a method actor. I would call myself a spontaneous actor.

For any role, I pretty much always go to the script, first and foremost.

I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.

I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.

You know, I've never been much of a method actor. I feel like, with every project I go in extremely prepared and I like to have a good time.

My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it.

For me, acting is a series of impressions rather than trying to find one line through to the end, which risks becoming more of a presentation.

I'm not a big method actor. I'm much more superficial.

No, I'm not a very methodologically pure actor.

I really think that studying theater early on really helped me to be able to identify how to get into a character, because it's such a mysterious thing. Learning objective acting in the beginning of my career was the best thing I could have ever done.

With any actor, if you know your character well enough, you'll know pretty much what he would say under any circumstance, or whatever situation might rear its head.

As an actor, I've always found that my job is not to judge the content in which I've agreed to perform in. What I try to do is just find the truth in every moment that they've written.

I'm not really into method acting - the way I was taught was the good old-fashioned British way of just doing your research and getting on with it.

Once, Naseeruddin Shah told me that the wafer shop was the best acting school that I could have attended. And I completely agree. I observed every customer very minutely and picked up some quirk or the other. Later, I used those experiences while playing different characters.

I have a hard time watching films and not thinking how I would play any part, whether it's a man or a woman.

I know what my limitations are as an actor, but my strength is putting myself into a well-written part. When I get in trouble is when I have to fix it, or when I have to carry it on personality.

I like to rehearse. We did a lot of rehearsals for 'Moneyball,' but it is really individual to the actor. It's not like, 'Here is my process, everybody. Fit in.'

I'm just so used to music videos or live TV, so to really see something that's scripted and you have to do it over and over again to get every angle - it's fascinating to me. I would love to do a little acting.

An actor is defined by the choices he or she makes.

I always bring at least 15 to 20 percent of Tiffany to every character that I do. Like when I read 'Girls Trip,' I was like, 'Who been partying with me? Somebody been hanging out with me and done stole some stuff.'

My acting career began on the streets of New York. When I was a cop, I played many impressive roles, from derelict to a doctor, and my life often depended on my performance.

I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don't understand the process of acting and who try very hard to label things.

I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.

I don't categorize characters into one syllable. These are fully-rounded characters that I don't judge; I just play them.