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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.

Zachary Quinto

Heroes’ really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.
ZACHARY QUINTO

Games Hero Way
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.
ZACHARY QUINTO

Culture Gay Men
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 probably get eight straight hours of acting in an entire season or two seasons of Suits. It’s broken into such small pieces.
ZACHARY QUINTO

Broken Eight Pieces Small Two
I changed all my passwords. I have no any two passwords that are the same for any service online. I have two-step verification enabled on all my devices…so yeah, I did take some extra steps that I hadn’t taken before being exposed to this world.
ZACHARY QUINTO

Steps Taken Two Verification
I’ve had some pretty stimulating conversations about where we are politically as a result of this movie [Snowden], but then there are a lot of questions just about that sensationalism of it.
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Conversation Results Sensationalism
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.
ZACHARY QUINTO

Ideas Love People
We just have to have visibility. We have to have acknowledgement. We have to have accountability to how we treat one another.
ZACHARY QUINTO

Accountability Treats Visibility
I try to be as fearless as possible. I don’t always succeed, but I like to think I try.
ZACHARY QUINTO

Fearless Thinking Trying
There’s nothing so freeing as going to rehearsal and having that experience.
ZACHARY QUINTO

Experience Freeing Rehearsal
I’m a big believer in the notion that our greatest potential lies in our darkest parts. To a certain extent it’s only in facing those parts of ourselves that we can truly grow, and I think that’s true of all of the characters I’ve played, certainly in the past few years.
ZACHARY QUINTO

Character Lying Past
I only auditioned at four schools. I started performing and studying when I was in middle school, and then as I got into high school, it just got more serious. I feel like it became more of a vocation. It became clear to me at that point that I wanted to pursue it.
ZACHARY QUINTO

Four School Serious
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.
ZACHARY QUINTO

Focus Partners Sides
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.
ZACHARY QUINTO

Focus Moments Pivotal School
Exercise is an important element of being an actor, on any level.
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Actors Exercise Important
It is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action.
ZACHARY QUINTO

Action Compassion Integrity

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 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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