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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
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Ballet Dancer
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Passaic
New Jersey
Zoë Saldaña
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I always strive to keep a balance with my fears. I don't like to be ruled by them. At the same time, I don't like the idea of living my life totally free of any fears. I like having that moderation.
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To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me.
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What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else - when you want to be another person.
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The biggest battle that I have is being a woman in the world. That takes center stage for me.
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I am hoping for a long career.
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Dancing for the length of time that I did, it centered me in such a way to be really in tune with my body, and I just feel like I'm physically able to do things because of my ballet background. Without ballet, I don't think I'd look graceful at all on screen.
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Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.
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If there's any relevant influence we may have with an investor, with a studio, with a director, with an actor, I think we have to fight.
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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 love wearing men's clothing and underwear.
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Sometimes we have to be patient because the one thing that is inevitable in life is evolution. Whether it comes at the pace that we are expecting it or not, it’s inevitable.
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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 just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.
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I grew up loving action movies and films that were set in supernatural, unimaginable places. So I take being a woman in the film industry who is able to do action movies very seriously because I'm making the kind of movies that I wanted to watch as I was a kid and that inspired me and are the reason as to why I am here.
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On the basis of being a woman, by playing an alien, I avoid playing someone's girlfriend here on Earth because that's a bit of a canker sore.
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I love aging. Why would I want to be 21 for the rest of my life?
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Call me crazy - I love elk meat!
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You need one hundred percent commitment you have to be willing to wake up every morning knowing you're going to [practice] eight hours straight.
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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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