Zoe Saldana Quotes - Page 2

I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.

Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.

I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.

I'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally.

Let's start creating better roles that accurately depict people we know so closely.

I love aging. Why would I want to be 21 for the rest of my life?

I love skin. I don't believe the body is something to hide.

Every character has their reasons - even the characters who do dumb things.

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.

I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.

Physical roles give me a chance to learn something new.

My twenties were great. Who didn't have fun in their twenties? But my attention was more out there, more about the surface stuff and the cosmetic stuff. I was always thinking, 'What do I need to do?' Now in my thirties, it's, 'What do I want to do?' I've just become more solid with my own identity. So whoever wants to say their twenties are better... Yes, they're fun, especially at night - better parties, better cocktails... not better sex though. Absolutely not. And whoever says that is lying because sex in your thirties and beyond is f**king out of this world.

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.

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.

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.

I felt a combination of happiness and humility [ to People Magazine's 100 Most Beautiful People ]. At the same time there's a lot of pressure, because people can approach you whose intentions aren't in the best place, and they can say things that are very hurtful. And on one of those days when you wake up and you just go and get your coffee without worrying about looking your best, you make yourself vulnerable to someone who'd say something like, "You look awful for being on the Top 100 list."

To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me.

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.

Being a former dancer, classical dancer, it informed me as a human being just in terms of the grace I guess. Ballet is a very graceful form of art. You also become very aware of your body and your mind and your body is working in conjunction. That kind of helps you in acting as well. It's not only using your mind, it's like making your mind communicate this character into your body so that you can bring it to life and physicalize it.

I'm learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company.

I am fluent in Spanish and I understand French, Italian and Portuguese.

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.

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!

Where people really base their principles has nothing to do with the color of someone's skin, it has to do with money and their class.

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.