Zachary Quinto recalls crazy cat scene

Zachary Quinto wondered if he'd be better waiting tables after shooting a scene where he was attacked by cat puppets.

The 37-year-old actor is promoting his latest big screen outing Hitman: Agent 47 at the moment, but things haven't always been quite so exciting. He's done his fair share of less impressive roles, some of which were on TV, when he was trying to make it.

"I was on [US witch show] Charmed as a warlock with emo bangs; it's a good combination. People are really proportionally frightened of emo bangs," he told talk show host Seth Meyers. "I had a whole thing. I was chasing a character who is really a cat, and the culmination of the episode is that I was attacked by a litter of cats and in order to make it work they had to put chicken in my pockets. That was maybe a low point. They also, to be fair, used puppet cats. So there were people with cats on sticks that were, like, poking at me. I said, 'Maybe I would prefer waiting tables, I'm not so sure about this.'"

Unfortunately for Zachary, that wasn't the only poor point of his career. He also appeared in a show called That's Life alongside Ellen Burstyn and Paul Sorvino, in which he portrayed a high school basketball team's mascot. It meant dressing up as a chicken and not much else.

"Mid-way through the game the only thing that my character had was pants that fell down," he explained. "And it was in a gymnasium full of people. If I'd had any other significant contribution to the episode maybe I would have felt better about it, but literally that is all I did. We all have to start somewhere."