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It is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action.

Zachary Quinto

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
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
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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Maelstrom Matter Voice
I’m incredibly happy, I’m incredibly lucky.
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Happy Incredibly Lucky
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 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
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
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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Hero Journey Stars
Exercise is an important element of being an actor, on any level.
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Actors Exercise Important
There’s nothing so freeing as going to rehearsal and having that experience.
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Experience Freeing Rehearsal
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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Create Hero Ideas Stars
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.
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Focus Moments Pivotal School
I think it’s like, you know, you can’t get ahead of yourself, because no amount of success or exposure or opportunity is going to really matter or be ultimately fulfilling unless you can be totally present in what you’re doing right now.
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Matter Opportunity 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.
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Broken Eight Pieces Small Two
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

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