Top 89 Saldana Quotes
#1. Well you know, I have the utmost respect for people like Angelina Jolie and Zoe Saldana in 'Colombiana. '
Gina Carano
#2. I really like the risk takers. I like people who make those different choices on the carpet. I really like Charlize Theron. I think she's elegant and edgy as well. I love Zoe Saldana.
Genesis Rodriguez
#3. I did a little film called 'Nina,' a small role. I played a French girl who was a nurse to Nina Simone. Zoe Saldana plays Nina.
Alaina Huffman
#4. I'm always the one on the carpet that will be wearing something that nobody else will pick from the collection. I feel like I have some style soul sisters out there, like Diane Kruger and Zoe Saldana, they feel very much kindred spirits when it comes to style.
Jaime King
#5. Frankly, I was extremely jealous of his scenes with Zoe Saldana and I think it's totally unfair that I never got to do that. I will never forgive the writers and the director, for having put me in this position, to have to be watching that, rather than participating.
Leonard Nimoy
#6. Some of my favorite actresses are Cate Blanchett, I love her. I love Zoe Saldana, and Julianne Moore is one of my favorites. I like women who choose diverse roles and have that strength, which I think all women have but some women embrace it, present it, and live in it.
Jessica Clark
#7. I love women. I worship women. Don't want to be any other woman but myself.
Zoe Saldana
#8. In dance you use every party of your body except your voice. I wanted to start acting because I wanted to use my voice.
Zoe Saldana
#9. I get along very well with animals and children. I dig them, I get them.
Zoe Saldana
#10. 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.
Zoe Saldana
#12. Every character has their reasons - even the characters who do dumb things.
Zoe Saldana
#13. I'm learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company.
Zoe Saldana
#14. 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.
Zoe Saldana
#15. 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.
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#17. Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.
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#18. 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.
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#19. I don't like things like little sandals that look fragile. I like to look strong and commanding.
Zoe Saldana
#22. 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.
Zoe Saldana
#23. 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.
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#24. 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
#25. 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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#26. 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.
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#27. 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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#28. I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.
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#29. 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.
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#30. Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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#31. Basically, there's not enough sex in movies, that's it. I'm trying to say it, people. I miss sex in movies because sex is natural, guns are not.
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#33. 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.
Zoe Saldana
#34. Where in the work of these people was love, the unmoving motor of all the stars, fixed point and vertex of the actions of men of real daring?
Daniel Saldana Paris
#35. 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
#36. 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.
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#37. I love skin. I don't believe the body is something to hide.
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#38. 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.
Zoe Saldana
#39. 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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#40. I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.
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#41. For the actor's wishes to be respected in terms of characteristics that your character's gonna have, you have to work with good and intelligent and talented stunt people that not only can carry weapons well but can also carry a personality.
Zoe Saldana
#42. 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.
Zoe Saldana
#43. 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.'
Zoe Saldana
#44. 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.
Zoe Saldana
#45. Fathers, sons, brothers, men everywhere: Your legacy will not perish if you take your partner's surname, or she keeps hers.
Zoe Saldana
#46. 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.
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#47. On the basis of being a woman, by playing an alien, I avoid playing someone's girlfriend here on Earth because that's a bit of a canker sore.
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#48. Physical roles give me a chance to learn something new.
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#49. 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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#50. I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.
Zoe Saldana
#51. You need one hundred percent commitment; you have to be willing to wake up every morning knowing you're going to [practice] eight hours straight.
Zoe Saldana
#52. 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.
Zoe Saldana
#53. 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.
Zoe Saldana
#54. As an artist, I like working with filmmakers that have the balls to kind of imagine the unimaginable. Those are kind of the radicals that I identify with.
Zoe Saldana
#55. I am fluent in Spanish and I understand French, Italian and Portuguese.
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#56. I love the anxiety, the pressure of the loud room full of yapping kids. But I'm a kid myself.
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#57. I love aging. Why would I want to be 21 for the rest of my life?
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#58. 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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#59. It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
Zoe Saldana
#60. It's ok to say, 'this is what I want' and go after it.
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#61. It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.
Zoe Saldana
#62. 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.
Zoe Saldana
#63. Look at me. I'm skinny, I have a big nose, no tits and no ass, but in a room full of beautiful women, I would still leave with the most gorgeous guy.
Zoe Saldana
#64. Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
Zoe Saldana
#65. You have to be very committed and find happiness in the work that you do.
Zoe Saldana
#66. 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.
Zoe Saldana
#67. I'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally.
Zoe Saldana
#68. Before an actor can be this or be that, the actor must simply be.
Zoe Saldana
#69. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin. But God as my witness, I am going to try to do everything I can to keep this ass together for as long as I possibly can - without going against nature.
Zoe Saldana
#70. I find it really frustrating when people go, "I want to be famous and glamorous like you."
Zoe Saldana
#71. I like to be around people who are very passionate. People that won't fight but that will be very over-protective and outspoken about their opinion, their point of view, their ideas.
Zoe Saldana
#72. The biggest battle that I have is being a woman in the world. That takes center stage for me.
Zoe Saldana
#73. I want to have more sex, travel more, drink more wine and love life.
Zoe Saldana
#74. A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time.
Zoe Saldana
#75. Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.
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#76. I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.
Zoe Saldana
#77. I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.
Zoe Saldana
#78. As actors you have this trait to imitate very easily. I don't want to imitate anything or limit myself of finding this creature, this woman because I'm looking at magazines and I'm reading comics, and I'm asking people that are avid readers of The Guardians.
Zoe Saldana
#80. I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
Zoe Saldana
#81. You find a way to work with people you have more in common with.
Zoe Saldana
#82. 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.
Zoe Saldana
#85. When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.
Zoe Saldana
#86. Science fiction is a genre that no everyone is keen on watching.
Zoe Saldana
#87. 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!
Zoe Saldana
#88. To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina ... means a lot to me.
Zoe Saldana
#89. 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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