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At school, I was this tomboy kid who just loved to hang out with her friends and learn curse words, trying to fit in with the cool kids and defending all the kids who got picked on.

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Michelle Rodriguez
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 12
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I learned that you can make a sci-fi film that is satisfying overseas. European people have everything in check. I'd make every sci-fi film in Europe. They only work 14 hours a day. After that, it's overtime.
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I'm always researching ancient religions, and I was also raised Jehovah's Witness, so that kind of scarred me for life.
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I'm stubborn. I'm hardheaded. I don't do what I don't want to do.
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Guys are so predictable. They can't seem to separate fantasy from reality, so I get a lot of bikers and race car drivers hitting on me. They're all just playboys, so they don't interest me.
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I don't like weak women and I don't find it interesting to play them. I'm inspired by them, when I see them in dramas, like with Natalie Portman, in almost every movie she's in. It's awesome that chicks can really go there, and it's beautiful to watch, but I don't think I'm interested, in any way, shape or form, in embodying those creatures.
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The more confidence you have in yourself and the more you believe that you are destined to do what you are gonna do, it will happen.
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I thought about making movies. It hit me when I was about 14, 15 years old.
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I don't have much history - I've got Rosie Perez, Jennifer Lopez, Rita Moreno. That's it. That's the history of Latin women in Hollywood, really.
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My dad was more, Let's play chess. Read a book, you're stupid. He's more the intellectual type.
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The best part of making the movies... learning from the pros themselves.
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Growing up in Jersey City was interesting. I got to learn a lot about different cultures: I had Hindu friends, Middle Eastern friends, black friends, Spanish friends.
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I was born in Texas and I lived there 'till I was 8. Then I moved to the Dominican Republic with my mom, lived there for two years and forgot every word of English I knew.
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I am looking forward to seeing my buddy Colin represent in front of Pacino. That's sweet.
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I've gone both ways. I do as I please. I am too f**king curious to sit here and not try when I can. Men are intriguing. So are chicks.
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