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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

There’s nothing so freeing as going to rehearsal and having that experience.
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Experience Freeing Rehearsal
[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’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 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’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 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
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 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
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
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
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 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
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 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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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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