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Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.

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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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Egotistical
Narcissistic
Brains
Strange
Animal

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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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Let's start creating better roles that accurately depict people we know so closely.
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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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Look at me. I’m skinny, I have a big nose, no tits and no ass, but in a room full of beautiful women, I would still leave with the most gorgeous guy.
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I love aging. Why would I want to be 21 for the rest of my life?
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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 love the anxiety, the pressure of the loud room full of yapping kids. But I'm a kid myself.
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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 think there are roles there we just have to choose them. We have to fight for them.
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