Zachary Quinto Quotes

I work on television and I work in film, and the acting is two different things.

I come from the theater and you normally have four or five weeks to prepare. For me, the fun of the job is to pull yourself into a subject that you know nothing about.

Acting is doing. The more you do, the more you learn. Work begets work.

As an actor for hire, my job is to do some pre-production work for myself. Then my job is to show up and give the best performance I can.

Working with talented people and challenging myself as an actor [excites me].

I just feel my way through. If I had to give an acting class, I wouldn't know what to do.

The movie that you'll be in is a new challenge. Photography is just the shot - one day, two days - and the next day you're gone.

As an actor, I don't know what I'm doing. I've never known what I was doing. I show up the first day, I'm scared, and I just hang out. It's like being in detention - you just wait for it to be over. Then gradually I start to figure out what's going on.

I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.

Acting has always been something I've wanted to get into. I think the best models are actors; you're taking on a character. In that sense, I have been acting for a long time. It didn't seem like a crazy transition.

I'm a theater actress. I love rehearsal. I could have six weeks of rehearsal and think it's not enough. But on film, you don't get that luxury.

I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.

I'm an actor's director. I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life.

Do theater. Because you'll develop a craft that you'll always have. It'll give you a chance to really learn how to act and you won't go into the world with a few measly tricks that will only carry you so far.

'Scandal' has been, for me, the most consistent time I've ever logged in front of a camera. I grew up in the theater, and I feel very confident and comfortable on the stage and in front of a live audience, but the camera is a very different medium.

It's not good just to have life experience of film-making and that's all. It's hard to play a real person when you've been in jets and town cars for three years.

I just enjoy acting, whatever area - theatre, film, television.

I think every actor should go back and do theater periodically.

It's important to do research. I do that in every play, every actor does.

I've been on projects before where there's no rehearsal, and you walk in on set and that's literally the first time you've ever played the character, and then I've had times where there's been three weeks of rehearsal. I like both.

I liked acting early on, and I really liked roles that were meaningful to me, and 'Baywatch' was.

Actors are investigators.

The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings.

Having a guy on a microphone yelling lines at you is counter to a lot of acting techniques.

I grew up the son of an acting teacher, so I was kind of introduced to all of these various methods early... I've never been really good at articulating how, what that process is in the way that Stanislavsky could.