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I don't have an agent. The only work I get is through friendships that I've already built.
Michelle Rodriguez
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Michelle Rodriguez
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 12
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I would like to see a fierce Fantasia mixed with Blade Runner, Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars all in one. That's the kind of movies I want to make.
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I'm a video game fan. I played them before I became an actress.
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The egos in this industry are incredibly vulnerable and everybody's afraid to wipe out. So everybody plays it safe and everybody tells everybody else how great they are.
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I went to business school but left after four months because I just didn't want to be a puppet of society, stuck in an office, craving some sunlight.
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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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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 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 had older brothers who would pick on me, and injustice always boiled my blood.
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I think there are three types of actors. There are the ones that do the ego thing, which is I'm never going to look bad in a movie, ever. This is mostly the action film dudes, like, Nah, hell no. He ain't punchin' me! I'd whoop his ass!
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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 just never felt like I belonged anywhere. I always had a stick with a little knapsack attached.
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The only place that I'd be worried about being typecast is the independent film world.
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They didn't train me to be in the ring for five and a half hours punching air. So, it was hard, I had to get some body contact in there somewhere, it was mostly body shots and stuff. I had no clue, really.
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The best part of making the movies... learning from the pros themselves.
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I trained with an ex-Navy Seal. We shot a lot of guns. Real bullets... I underwent commando training.
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Basically I was a rebel growing up. I got kicked out of six schools. But I don't think that it makes you less of an intellect. You know, if you ever crave knowledge, there's always a library.
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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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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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