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.
ZACHARY QUINTO[Edward Snowden and his team] they’re great characters. They’re fascinating people. They were in an extraordinary situation.
More Zachary Quinto Quotes
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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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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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Exercise is an important element of being an actor, on any level.
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It is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action.
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Heroes’ really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.
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Heroes and Star Trek were 2006 and 2007, and I was just about to turn 30, and everything changed. I found myself on this amazing journey, which continues, but it’s now at a natural transition point. I’m reevaluating and reexamining how and where I go from here.
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[Edward Snowden and his team] they’re great characters. They’re fascinating people. They were in an extraordinary situation.
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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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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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I want to be working with directors who are at the top of their game. I want to be raising the bar for myself, and to me, the best way to do that is to prove to them that I’m the best for this job.
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I’m incredibly happy, I’m incredibly lucky.
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I would love to be a voice in this maelstrom of chaos and obsessive celebrity infatuation that says, ‘Let’s talk about something that matters’.
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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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I try to be as fearless as possible. I don’t always succeed, but I like to think I try.
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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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