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Zoe Saldana
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: June 19
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Zoë Saldaña
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I don't understand labels. I don't need anybody to tell me I'm Latina or black or anything else. I've played characters that were written for Caucasian females, I just want to be given the same consideration as everybody else, and so far that has been happening.
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I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.
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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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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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You have to be very committed and find happiness in the work that you do.
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Not to settle. If you're not happy with a person, leave. And wait until you find that one person who makes you feel good about yourself every single day and is not expecting you to change, but to grow.
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Physical roles give me a chance to learn something new.
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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 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 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.
Zoe Saldana
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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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 get too caught up in wanting to do that one movie that will get seen and approved and nominated, that we lose sight that there are so many other movies that are worth your time.
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Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
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It's ok to say, 'this is what I want' and go after it.
Zoe Saldana
There's nobody on this earth who can tell you that what you're feeling is wrong. They can tell you it's different to what they're feeling.
Zoe Saldana
I love skin. I don't believe the body is something to hide.
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Science fiction is a genre that no everyone is keen on watching.
Zoe Saldana
I always strive to keep a balance with my fears. I don't like to be ruled by them. At the same time, I don't like the idea of living my life totally free of any fears. I like having that moderation.
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