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Zachary Quinto

I would say auditioning was my real training ground. The technical aspects – like hitting marks and pacing yourself and preparing and dealing with the downtime – the first recurring role I had on 24 was probably the way I learned that stuff.
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Real Stuff Training
When I got out of school, it used to be that it was theater actors that ended up doing film and television, and you had to come from the theater to be taken seriously in that world.
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Country Film Person School Taken Television
It’s a very complicated landscape and I don’t think there’s one easy answer about it [Edard Snowden movie].
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Answers Landscape Thinking
I loved auditioning because it was just an opportunity to act. Whether or not I got the job was the next hurdle, but the idea that I would get to act that day was the thing that excited me the most about it.
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Ideas Jobs Opportunity
I knew I needed a partner. I needed someone who could focus on and spearhead the business side of things, and [Neal Dodson] was great at that. That’s how it started.
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Focus Partners Sides
My return to the theater in New York was so specific. I didn’t want it to be about leveraging my exposure or my fame, so the first show I did in New York was an ensemble piece at an Off-Broadway theater, and I wanted to make sure that it was just about the play and about the experience.
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Country Person Play Want
I try to be as fearless as possible. I don’t always succeed, but I like to think I try.
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Fearless Thinking Trying
I had just gotten Heroes, and I had just found out that I was going to be doing [Star] Trek, and I thought it was probably a good idea for me to create an infrastructure that would allow me to do my own work and put my stuff into the world.
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Create Hero Ideas Stars
Exercise is an important element of being an actor, on any level.
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Actors Exercise Important
We’re living in an increasingly nationalistic, xenophobic time, and you can see it reflected in societies all over the world.
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Increasingly Nationalistic World
Again, as a gay man I look at that and say there’s a hopelessness that surrounds it, but as a human being I look at it and say ‘Why? Where’s this disparity coming from, and why can’t we as a culture and society dig deeper to examine that?’ We’re terrified of facing ourselves.
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Culture Gay Men
There was no other concern; there was no other focus [in the Governor’s School]. It was simply there to learn and grow and perform, and that was pretty amazing and informative. I’d say that was a big pivotal moment for me.
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Focus Moments Pivotal School
We just have to have visibility. We have to have acknowledgement. We have to have accountability to how we treat one another.
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Accountability Treats Visibility
There’s nothing so freeing as going to rehearsal and having that experience.
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Experience Freeing Rehearsal
It is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action.
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Action Compassion Integrity
[Edward Snowden and his team] they’re great characters. They’re fascinating people. They were in an extraordinary situation.
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Character People Team

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