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I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.

Zoe Saldana

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Zoe Saldana
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: June 19
Actor
Actress
Ballet Dancer
Film Actor
Film Producer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Passaic
New Jersey
Zoë Saldaña
Women
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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For me, it's very important if I do action movies and I have a stunt person, to work with them. Not only by memorizing the choreography but also it's important to study that individual and it's imperative for that individual to study you because you're not playing two different people, you're playing the same person.
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I'm a kid from New York, so urban life reflected into art and music was around me and accessible and tangible.
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There was this book that Judi Dench wrote that said there was a moment where, before an actor can be this or be that, the actor must simply be. I thought that to have absolute presence was to absorb everything that’s thrown at you.
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I do believe in us as actors and directors and writers and producers and also as movie-goers. We have much more power than we believe we have. Without our ticket, studios can't make traditional decisions.
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For the actor's wishes to be respected in terms of characteristics that your character's gonna have, you have to work with good and intelligent and talented stunt people that not only can carry weapons well but can also carry a personality.
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I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.
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Not to settle. If you're not happy with a person, leave. And wait until you find that one person who makes you feel good about yourself every single day and is not expecting you to change, but to grow.
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I don't understand labels. I don't need anybody to tell me I'm Latina or black or anything else. I've played characters that were written for Caucasian females, I just want to be given the same consideration as everybody else, and so far that has been happening.
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When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.
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I never really watched the TV series.
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It's insecure, and it's immature.
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Every time an adult is going to write something for a teenager and you don't have, physically, a person who is that, you are always going to be a little off.
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I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.
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I love women. I worship women. Don’t want to be any other woman but myself.
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Science fiction is a genre that no everyone is keen on watching.
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Let's start creating better roles that accurately depict people we know so closely.
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I'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally.
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In Caribbean there is no middle class: you're either rich or you're poor. And the ladder to success is not really a ladder, it's a chain once you reach a certain level, you can't go back and you can only keep going forward.
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The biggest obstacle I've had to overcome is being a woman in a man's world.
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