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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.
Zoe Saldana
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Zoe Saldana
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: June 19
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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.
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I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.
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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 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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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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Our censorship has sort of gotten a little too far. Too much censorship is just as bad as having none at all. Children need to be exposed to things, because if they don't see it, eventually, it's not like it's not going to happen, but it's just that there needs to be a balance.
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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.
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Let's start creating better roles that accurately depict people we know so closely.
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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 want to have more sex, travel more, drink more wine and love life.
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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.
Zoe Saldana
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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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 just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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The biggest obstacle I've had to overcome is being a woman in a man's world.
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When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.
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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.
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Physical roles give me a chance to learn something new.
Zoe Saldana
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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I like to look strong and commanding.
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