With his role as Spock in the current Star Trek franchise, Zachary Quinto is one of the most high-profile openly gay actors working in movies today.

While he has some company such as the in-demand Ian McKellen, there still is not a single A-list leading man who is out.

‘I guess it’s just a matter of what people are willing to sacrifice for what they consider success,’ Quinto told HuffPost Live this week. ‘For me, it’s like you can’t have one without the other.’

Quinto, who came out publicly in 2011, said when he first arrived in Los Angeles after college more than a decade ago, there was a ‘constant undercurrent’ of wondering how he could achieve success if he were openly gay.

‘I felt clear with who I was,’ he says, ‘but I couldn’t reconcile it with a career. I didn’t think it was possible.’

He remained private through his early success in the TV series Heroes but casually went public in a newspaper interview more than three years ago.

‘We’re all on our own journey,’ Quinto says. ‘I wouldn’t want to live any other way but this but then maybe my priorities are different.’

Quinto, 37, is working steadily in films, television and on stage. He is currently the star of the NBC miniseries The Slap and was nominated for an Emmy for his performance in American Horror Story: Asylum.

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1. February 23rd, 2015 at 12:57 pm
   Charlie says:

   Neal Patrick Harris,or Mathew Bomer zren’t “A-List”?