Zachary Quinto Quotes

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'.

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.

We just have to have visibility. We have to have acknowledgement. We have to have accountability to how we treat one another.

I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.

Parents need to teach their children principles of respect and acceptance.

It is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action.

Part of being a psychopath is an ability to dissociate from one reality and create another one, completely.

I listen to music a lot, if I need to get into a particular space. I do stretching and breathing, and take time to mostly be quiet and find the stillness. I think that's important.

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.

My desire to be valued is manifested in cultivating relationships with my friends and family.

The interesting thing about my character Sylar is that my strengths as an actor seemed to go completely against the shape of a character in the shadow.

I remember standing outside of the dorm by the little terrace. I was going to do this job that I wasn't 100 percent certain of, which ended up being much more fun than I expected [in So Notorious].

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.

I probably get eight straight hours of acting in an entire season or two seasons of Suits. It's broken into such small pieces.

Even the former Attorney General of the United States Eric Holder has come out to say that he believed that [Edward] Snowden performed a public service, and I couldn't agree more.

What we do with the information now is up to us, but certainly I have a lot of respect for the courage and integrity that was required for [Edard Snowden] to take that action.

It's a very complicated landscape and I don't think there's one easy answer about it [Edard Snowden movie].

[Edward Snoden] has said many times that he's willing to come back and face trial if he can be guaranteed a fair trial, but the likelihood of that is so slim.

We're living in an increasingly nationalistic, xenophobic time, and you can see it reflected in societies all over the world.

I saw how vulnerable we all are and how exposed we all are and how this is an issue that affects everyone who owns a piece of technology. Which is certainly most people in this country.

[Edward Snowden and his team] they're great characters. They're fascinating people. They were in an extraordinary situation.

There's nothing so freeing as going to rehearsal and having that experience.

Maybe it's because it's connected to my childhood, or it's connected to the origins of what drove me creatively, but I feel like my life never makes more sense than when I'm in that process.

We [with Neal Dodson and Corey Moosa] were constantly looking for features and looking for ways to get involved with people who were making stuff.

It's funny that you [Zachary Quinto] did a monologue from Pounding Nails in the Floor With My Forehead. I did the same thing for my university when I went to USC.

I remember Zachary Quinto were just about to go and do So Notorious on VH1, and I was super unemployed, and I think we spent a lot of time talking about how we weren't particularly happy.

I remember our conversations [with Zachary Quinto] always being frustrated that we weren't doing what we wanted to do, but also filled with the determination that we were going to overcome that.

It just so happened that J.C.[Chandor] was a first-time feature director, and his script was exactly the kind of thing we were looking for.

I think I integrated that over the first couple of years that I was out of school, mostly in auditions, to be honest.

I had to learn how to modulate my performances and interpretations of these roles in auditions for the camera.

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.

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.

Who's to say what would have happened if I had trusted my instincts and moved to New York like I thought I would.

I think we're a little bit more astray, more far afield from true integration and true acceptance.

I was definitely an extroverted personality at a young age and theater was an outlet for me to channel that energy.

That idea of comparison is what fans do. That's why fans exist. They believe in something and something connects to them, and they have passionate feelings and opinions about films.

The play I did on Broadway a couple of seasons ago started out of town and it moved its way into New York because of the experience that we had out of town.

I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.

My dad died when I was a kid, so I think it became a place for me to go where my mom knew that I was safe and taken care of and looked after.

I'm incredibly happy, I'm incredibly lucky.

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.

I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.

I don't immerse myself in the Internet chatter because it opens you up to a whole source of danger.

My passion is acting, and has always been. It's what brought me to this point of being able to diversify and do other things, and I hope it's something I'll continue to have a passion for.

I just try to let myself really focus on the work that's ahead of me and what my job is and how I bring something to life.

I think it's always good when you're able to, as an actor, allow your work to be some kind of a conduit for social discourse, and an examination of where we are, as a society.

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

I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.

I recognized that I had a window of opportunity that had opened because of my exposure as an actor.

Other actors are not my concern, and that's their life and that's their journey. Everybody has to get to a point in their own time and their own way.