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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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Zoe Saldana
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: June 19
Actor
Actress
Ballet Dancer
Film Actor
Film Producer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Passaic
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Zoë Saldaña
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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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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Trust me: Studios, investors, filmmakers, they will shift because they just follow the money trail.
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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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I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.
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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'm learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company.
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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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Let's start creating better roles that accurately depict people we know so closely.
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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 want to have more sex, travel more, drink more wine and love life.
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I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.
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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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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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People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood.
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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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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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