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The biggest obstacle I've had to overcome is being a woman in a man's world.
Zoe Saldana
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Zoe Saldana
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: June 19
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Ballet Dancer
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Zoë Saldaña
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There was this book that Judi Dench wrote that said there was a moment where, before an actor can be this or be that, the actor must simply be. I thought that to have absolute presence was to absorb everything that’s thrown at you.
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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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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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Music is a very big participant in everything I do, from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed.
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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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I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.
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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'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally.
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I know the responsibility that entails from telling a story. The one thing I despise the most is when I go to a movie and I see a whole bunch of lazy actors making me waste my time and money.
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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 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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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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For me, it's very important if I do action movies and I have a stunt person, to work with them. Not only by memorizing the choreography but also it's important to study that individual and it's imperative for that individual to study you because you're not playing two different people, you're playing the same person.
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On the basis of being a woman, by playing an alien, I avoid playing someone's girlfriend here on Earth because that's a bit of a canker sore.
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I've witnessed racism all my life. And of course there's racism and discrimination in Hollywood. You go for a part and they say, 'Oh, we really liked her, she's amazing, but we wanted to go with something more traditional'. As if I'm not a traditional American!
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Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
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The biggest battle that I have is being a woman in the world. That takes center stage for me.
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I'm a fan of the fan. I'm a fan of the active devotee who lives his life believing in something, who represents to me the character of a person that is very confident and sure of himself. Those are people I admire.
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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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I love women. I worship women. Don’t want to be any other woman but myself.
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