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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.

Zachary Quinto

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

Experience Freeing Rehearsal
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.
ZACHARY QUINTO

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].
ZACHARY QUINTO

Answers Landscape Thinking
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
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 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

Games Jobs Way
It is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action.
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Action Compassion Integrity
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
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’.
ZACHARY QUINTO

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

Games Hero Way
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

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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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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