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I found myself in a pattern of being attracted to people who were somehow unavailable, and what I realized was that I was protecting myself because I equate the idea of connection and love with trauma and death.

Zachary Quinto

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.
ZACHARY QUINTO

Create Hero Ideas Stars
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
Exercise is an important element of being an actor, on any level.
ZACHARY QUINTO

Actors Exercise Important
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
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.
ZACHARY QUINTO

Games Jobs Way
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 would love to be a voice in this maelstrom of chaos and obsessive celebrity infatuation that says, ‘Let’s talk about something that matters’.
ZACHARY QUINTO

Maelstrom Matter Voice
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.
ZACHARY QUINTO

Culture Government World
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

Broken Eight Pieces Small Two
It is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action.
ZACHARY QUINTO

Action Compassion Integrity
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The advancement of technology has probably guided us more than anything else in one direction or another. I don’t know, it’s hard to say. We’re so much more connected, but we’ve never been more fractured as a culture.
ZACHARY QUINTO

Advancement Direction One Technology
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
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.
ZACHARY QUINTO

Focus Moments Pivotal School
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

Real Stuff Training
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
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.
ZACHARY QUINTO

Culture Gay Men

I found myself in a pattern of being attracted to people who were somehow unavailable, and what I realized was that I was protecting myself because I equate the idea of connection and love with trauma and death.

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