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 QUINTOIt is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action.
More Zachary Quinto Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I’m incredibly happy, I’m incredibly lucky.
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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.
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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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[Edward Snowden and his team] they’re great characters. They’re fascinating people. They were in an extraordinary situation.
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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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There’s nothing so freeing as going to rehearsal and having that experience.
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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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It is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action.
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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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