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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.
Zoe Saldana
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Zoe Saldana
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: June 19
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Ballet Dancer
Film Actor
Film Producer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Passaic
New Jersey
Zoë Saldaña
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Where people really base their principles has nothing to do with the color of someone's skin, it has to do with money and their class.
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Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
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I find it really frustrating when people go, I want to be famous and glamorous like you. It's hard for me not to have a bad thought when someone says that to me, since if there's anything this business is not, is glamorous. It's only glamorous for maybe five minutes every now and then.
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I find it really frustrating when people go, I want to be famous and glamorous like you.
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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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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 kid from New York, so urban life reflected into art and music was around me and accessible and tangible.
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I am fluent in Spanish and I understand French, Italian and Portuguese.
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I was a ballet dancer for so long, but when I realized I had reached my limit and that I couldn't go any further I knew I wanted to pursue acting. That's one thing you don't use as a dancer - your voice. And the one thing I use most in my life is my voice so it's wonderful to get to express myself artistically through the biggest instrument I use.
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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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You have to be very committed and find happiness in the work that you do.
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I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.
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I never really watched the TV series.
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I never like to get political, but when you have the ability, through your media, to influence a large mass of people, I would want to be a part of the evolving cycle of progress vs. keeping things the way that they are.
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