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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
We are witnessing an enormous shift of collective consciousness throughout the world. We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.
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Culture Government World
There’s nothing so freeing as going to rehearsal and having that experience.
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Experience Freeing Rehearsal
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
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
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
I find that communication as an actor and person is an important part of who I am. And I’m really drawn into the psychology of those dynamics.
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Communication Dynamics Psychology
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
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
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 found myself in a pattern of being attracted to people who were somehow unavailable, and what I realized was that I was protecting myself because I equate the idea of connection and love with trauma and death.
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Ideas Love People
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
I probably get eight straight hours of acting in an entire season or two seasons of Suits. It’s broken into such small pieces.
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Broken Eight Pieces Small Two
It is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action.
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Action Compassion Integrity
But when I found out that Jamey Rodemeyer had made an It Gets Better video only months before taking his own life, I felt indescribable despair.
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Better Despair Get Video
Heroes’ really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.
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Games Hero Way

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