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It's ok to say, 'this is what I want' and go after it.

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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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I don't like things like little sandals that look fragile. I like to look strong and commanding.
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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 never really watched the TV series.
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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'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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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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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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I am hoping for a long career.
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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 want to have more sex, travel more, drink more wine and love life.
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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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Physical roles give me a chance to learn something new.
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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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I like to look strong and commanding.
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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.
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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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I knew who Leonard Nimoy was, and that he embodied what Star Trek meant to all the fans. But it wasn't until I started doing my research for this movie, and started going to fan sites, that I began to fall in love with these characters.
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I would love to play Nefertiti or Cleopatra or the Queen of Sheba. We preserve more male history than we do female. We have to preserve [female history]. No more complaining. We have to do it.
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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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