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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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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
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Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.
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When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.
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It's insecure, and it's immature.
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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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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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I'm a fan of the fan. I'm a fan of the active devotee who lives his life believing in something, who represents to me the character of a person that is very confident and sure of himself. Those are people I admire.
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I am hoping for a long career.
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I have an amazing mother who's a real tough cookie. She taught me not to get emotional about [sexism in Hollywood], just be really practical and objective. Later, in the privacy of my own home, maybe I'll bawl or break some dishes, but you just have to keep going. It's not about fighting, it's about educating.
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Let's start creating better roles that accurately depict people we know so closely.
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I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.
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As actors you have this trait to imitate very easily. I don't want to imitate anything or limit myself of finding this creature, this woman because I'm looking at magazines and I'm reading comics, and I'm asking people that are avid readers of The Guardians.
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Music is a very big participant in everything I do, from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed.
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I love women. I worship women. Don’t want to be any other woman but myself.
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I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.
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I love the anxiety, the pressure of the loud room full of yapping kids. But I'm a kid myself.
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I just want to be a part of great stories, whether I'm part of an amazing ensemble cast or I'm leading it or the antagonist or whatever.
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Science fiction is a genre that no everyone is keen on watching.
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I know the responsibility that entails from telling a story. The one thing I despise the most is when I go to a movie and I see a whole bunch of lazy actors making me waste my time and money.
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I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.
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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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