Zoe Saldana's Quotes

I just want to be a part of great stories, whether I'm part of an amazing ensemble cast or I'm leading it or the antagonist or whatever.

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

I like to look strong and commanding.

I love the anxiety, the pressure of the loud room full of yapping kids. But I'm a kid myself.

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.

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

I want to be the best daughter, sister, friend and wife I can possibly be - because when I die, I am not going to be buried with my Oscar.

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.'

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

I'm Latin - we start young, honey!

I'm more of a guy's girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don't bicker or sit down and do my nails.

In dance you use every party of your body except your voice. I wanted to start acting because I wanted to use my voice.

Music is a very big participant in everything I do, from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed.

Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.

Physical roles give me a chance to learn something new.

The biggest battle that I have is being a woman in the world. That takes center stage for me.

There are a lot of magazines that are still sort of... that only cater to a certain demographic and only put certain people on their covers.

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

When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

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.

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.

Every time an adult is going to write something for a teenager and you don't have, physically, a person who is that, you are always going to be a little off.

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.

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.

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.