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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

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.
ZACHARY QUINTO

Country Person Play Want
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
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.
ZACHARY QUINTO

Ideas Jobs Opportunity
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
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
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.
ZACHARY QUINTO

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

Games Hero Way
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
Exercise is an important element of being an actor, on any level.
ZACHARY QUINTO

Actors Exercise Important
[Edward Snowden and his team] they’re great characters. They’re fascinating people. They were in an extraordinary situation.
ZACHARY QUINTO

Character People Team
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.
ZACHARY QUINTO

Conversation Results Sensationalism
I’m incredibly happy, I’m incredibly lucky.
ZACHARY QUINTO

Happy Incredibly Lucky
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
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.
ZACHARY QUINTO

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

Experience Freeing Rehearsal
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.
ZACHARY QUINTO

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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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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