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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.

Zachary Quinto

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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Character Lying Past
I’m incredibly happy, I’m incredibly lucky.
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Happy Incredibly Lucky
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
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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Games Jobs Way
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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Culture Government World
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
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
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
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
We’re living in an increasingly nationalistic, xenophobic time, and you can see it reflected in societies all over the world.
ZACHARY QUINTO

Increasingly Nationalistic World
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 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 is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action.
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Action Compassion Integrity
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 just have to have visibility. We have to have acknowledgement. We have to have accountability to how we treat one another.
ZACHARY QUINTO

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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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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