Zachary Quinto Quotes

I can't play anything until I find something that connects to my life, something I can carry as my secret map or code for the character.

Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.

I try to look at every role the same way, regardless of whether the character is real or the character is a fantasy. I always start from myself, because you have to know yourself first.

Ultimately, I don't think you can be a character who's completely alien or divorced from your own personality. It's probably true of every writer - it's probably true of every filmmaker, every songwriter - that, ultimately, every character you create is a facet of yourself.

Good acting comes from finding the essence of a character.

As an actor, you always want to find a piece of who you are in every role you take on.

For me, all the materials and objects I employ come from a specific space that's very personal.

It's the only way I really know how to tell the story is to be able to kind of live through the characters. So when I find something that resonates with me, it's usually because it cuts to something very real inside of me; something that I've gone through or experienced.

It's such a private thing - 'my process' - I can just say that the work that I do is like therapy between me and the character.

I think you have to draw from any character and bring it to yourself as much as possible.

I like to explore characters who are very different to me, or varied parts are very similar to me.

In acting process, it's very difficult to explain. It's something very intimate, very private.

Every role you play is literally - and I've said this before - every single role that you play, the only way you can connect to that character is because that was a piece of you that was scattered around that yard, almost like we got caught up in some whirlwind.

In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul.

There are always parts of me that come out in the characters that I play - it's the only thing I have to work with and to draw off of.

In one sense, every character you create will be yourself. You've never murdered, but your murderer's rage will be drawn from memories of your own extreme anger. Your love scenes will contain hints of your own past kisses and sweet moments.

For the most part, there's so much of me in my characters.

A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.

Art, in the first place, has to connect with yourself.

For me writing and acting all comes out of the same place, a compulsion to review and connect to something. For me they are more similar than different.

Yeah, it is, because it's a real discovery of your inner resources, you know. That's what my character is all about and what my playing is all about. But to get up there and just go inside and draw out something that makes you feel good first and foremost.

I find that, maybe because I'm also a singer, I hear music in characters all the time, even if they don't sing. I hear what affects me in my heart.

When you are playing someone who is dealing with issues on a really personal level, if you don't bring your own issues into the equation, it's not going to feel really personal to the people watching it.

You know one of the things about going from modeling to acting is it's so much more fulfilling. With modeling, you get your picture taken, which is great, good for you, you know? But in acting, you're able to reach in and show a little bit more of yourself.

With every role that I do, I always see a little bit of me, a little bit of art and life.