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Exercise is an important element of being an actor, on any level.

Zachary Quinto

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 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.
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Four School Serious
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
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 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.
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Steps Taken Two Verification
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’s nothing so freeing as going to rehearsal and having that experience.
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Experience Freeing Rehearsal
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
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
[Edward Snowden and his team] they’re great characters. They’re fascinating people. They were in an extraordinary situation.
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Character People Team
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
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
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
Heroes’ really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.
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Games Hero Way
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
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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Culture Gay Men

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