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I'm incredibly happy, I'm incredibly lucky.
Exercise is an important element of being an actor, on any level.
Parents need to teach their children principles of respect and acceptance.
Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.
'Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.
There's nothing so freeing as going to rehearsal and having that experience.
We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.
It is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action.
I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.
My desire to be valued is manifested in cultivating relationships with my friends and family.
I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
I think we're a little bit more astray, more far afield from true integration and true acceptance.
I don't immerse myself in the Internet chatter because it opens you up to a whole source of danger.
I recognized that I had a window of opportunity that had opened because of my exposure as an actor.
Part of being a psychopath is an ability to dissociate from one reality and create another one, completely.
It's a very complicated landscape and I don't think there's one easy answer about it [Edard Snowden movie].
I had to learn how to modulate my performances and interpretations of these roles in auditions for the camera.
Who's to say what would have happened if I had trusted my instincts and moved to New York like I thought I would.
Gay kids need to stop killing themselves because they are made to feel worthless by cruel and relentless bullying.
I was definitely an extroverted personality at a young age and theater was an outlet for me to channel that energy.
I think I integrated that over the first couple of years that I was out of school, mostly in auditions, to be honest.
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.
[Edward Snowden and his team] they're great characters. They're fascinating people. They were in an extraordinary situation.
We just have to have visibility. We have to have acknowledgement. We have to have accountability to how we treat one another.
We're living in an increasingly nationalistic, xenophobic time, and you can see it reflected in societies all over the 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.
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.
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.
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 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 would love to be a voice in this maelstrom of chaos and obsessive celebrity infatuation that says, 'Let's talk about something that matters'.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
[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.
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.
Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.