Quote

If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.

Zoe Saldana

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

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
Loving
Anything
Important
Work
Much
Always
Admiring
Filmmaker
Grown

More quotes by Zoe Saldana

Image
Basically, there's not enough sex in movies, that's it. I'm trying to say it, people. I miss sex in movies because sex is natural, guns are not.
Zoe Saldana
Image
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.
Zoe Saldana
Image
It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
Zoe Saldana
Image
When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.
Zoe Saldana
Image
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.
Zoe Saldana
Image
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.
Zoe Saldana
Image
It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.
Zoe Saldana
Image
I find it really frustrating when people go, I want to be famous and glamorous like you.
Zoe Saldana
Image
I'm a kid from New York, so urban life reflected into art and music was around me and accessible and tangible.
Zoe Saldana
Image
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.
Zoe Saldana
Image
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.
Zoe Saldana
Image
Every character has their reasons - even the characters who do dumb things.
Zoe Saldana
Image
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.
Zoe Saldana
Image
I'm learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company.
Zoe Saldana
Image
To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me.
Zoe Saldana
Image
You find a way to work with people you have more in common with.
Zoe Saldana
Image
Trust me: Studios, investors, filmmakers, they will shift because they just follow the money trail.
Zoe Saldana
Image
You have to be very committed and find happiness in the work that you do.
Zoe Saldana
Image
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.
Zoe Saldana
Image
I have a hyper personality.
Zoe Saldana