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The biggest battle that I have is being a woman in the world. That takes center stage for me.

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
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Fathers, sons, brothers, men everywhere: Your legacy will not perish if you take your partner's surname, or she keeps hers.
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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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Let's start creating better roles that accurately depict people we know so closely.
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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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It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.
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As a woman, you spend so much time either cooking or getting ready to go somewhere. I like to have music when I'm doing either of these things.
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I'm a girl from Queens. I've never gone, 'What am I doing today? Oh, I'm gonna grab a gun and learn how to use it.'
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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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I love being in space. I love being challenged by great roles that a company like Marvel creates amazing movies that no only give audiences an adventure but also give us as artists an opportunity for us to be challenged to embody amazing, multilayered characters.
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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.
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Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
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I get along very well with animals and children. I dig them, I get them.
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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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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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There's nobody on this earth who can tell you that what you're feeling is wrong. They can tell you it's different to what they're feeling.
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In dance you use every party of your body except your voice. I wanted to start acting because I wanted to use my voice.
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There are a lot of magazines that are still sort of... that only cater to a certain demographic and only put certain people on their covers.
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