Zoe Saldana famous quotes

Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.
-- Zoe Saldana

#Feel Good #Feelings #Skins

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

#Class #Ladders #Levels

A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time.
-- Zoe Saldana

#Children #Half #Adults

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.
-- Zoe Saldana

#Color #Class #People

I have been in relationships where a man has disrespected me, and I don't need to be friends with that man anymore. I don't want to be the one going, 'I'm cool, because I'm friends with all my exes.' There's a reason why you're called an ex. I crossed you off my list. Moving on. You cross a line, you need to know that you're going to walk this earth knowing that there's an individual who has no respect for you.
-- Zoe Saldana

#Moving #Men #Knowing

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

#Fighting #Views #Ideas

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

#Women #Latin #Thinking

You find a way to work with people you have more in common with.
-- Zoe Saldana

#People #Way #Common

I want to have more sex, travel more, drink more wine and love life.
-- Zoe Saldana

#Sex #Love Life #Wine

I grew up loving action movies and films that were set in supernatural, unimaginable places. So I take being a woman in the film industry who is able to do action movies very seriously because I'm making the kind of movies that I wanted to watch as I was a kid and that inspired me and are the reason as to why I am here.
-- Zoe Saldana

#Kids #Able #Watches

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

#Weekend #Going Away #Company

Science fiction is a genre that no everyone is keen on watching.
-- Zoe Saldana

#Fiction #Science Fiction #Genre

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.
-- Zoe Saldana

#Sex #Gun #People

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

#Artist #Balls #Kind

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

#Want #Aging

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

#Character #Intelligent #People

It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.
-- Zoe Saldana

#Courage #Denial #Faces

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

#Cooking #Ready

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.
-- Zoe Saldana

#Ensemble #Stories #Want

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

#Want #Roles #Settling

I have a hyper personality.
-- Zoe Saldana

#Personality #Hyper

I get along very well with animals and children. I dig them, I get them.
-- Zoe Saldana

#Children #Animal #Wells

Fathers, sons, brothers, men everywhere: Your legacy will not perish if you take your partner's surname, or she keeps hers.
-- Zoe Saldana

#Brother #Father #Son

I am hoping for a long career.
-- Zoe Saldana

#Careers #Long

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

#Balance #Want #Littles

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.
-- Zoe Saldana

#Teenager #Writing #Littles

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

#Leadership #Queens #Play

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

#Believe #Character #Actors

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

#Italian #Portuguese

It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
-- Zoe Saldana

#Character #Support #Males

I don't like things like little sandals that look fragile. I like to look strong and commanding.
-- Zoe Saldana

#Strong #Littles #Looks

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

#Birthday #Skins #Age

I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.
-- Zoe Saldana

#Men #Underwear #Clothings

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

#Feelings #Different #Earth

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.
-- Zoe Saldana

#Media #People #Political

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.
-- Zoe Saldana

#Love #Happiness #Bored

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

#Men #Shells #Stay Focused

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

#Character #Dumb #Reason

Call me crazy - I love elk meat!
-- Zoe Saldana

#Crazy #Elk #Meat

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

#Animal #Brain #Narcissistic

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.
-- Zoe Saldana

#Children #Balance #Needs

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 ***** together for as long as I possibly can - without going against nature.
-- Zoe Saldana

#Long #Skins #Trying

I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.
-- Zoe Saldana

#Ballet #Dying #Quitting

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

#Bed #Wake Up #Moments

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

#Responsibility #Lazy #Stories

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.
-- Zoe Saldana

#Important #Said #Admiring

I like to look strong and commanding.
-- Zoe Saldana

#Strong #Looks

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.
-- Zoe Saldana

#War #Thinking #Want

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

#Kids #Anxiety #Pressure

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

#Growing Up #Doctors #Secret Love

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

#Motivational #Morning #Commitment

I have an amazing mother who's a real tough cookie. She taught me not to get emotional about [sexism in Hollywood], just be really practical and objective. Later, in the privacy of my own home, maybe I'll bawl or break some dishes, but you just have to keep going. It's not about fighting, it's about educating.
-- Zoe Saldana

#Mom #Mother #Real

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.
-- Zoe Saldana

#Men #Facts #Significance

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

#Beautiful #Girl #Fiction

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

#Character #Black #Needs

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.
-- Zoe Saldana

#Thinking #Dancing #Ballet

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

#Mean #Latina

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

#People #Magazines #Certain

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.
-- Zoe Saldana

#Girl #Beer #Guy

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

#Girl #Queens #Gun

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

#Stories #Want #Relevant

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

#Battle #World #Being A Woman

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

#Character

Physical roles give me a chance to learn something new.
-- Zoe Saldana

#Giving #Give Me A Chance #Roles

It's insecure, and it's immature.
-- Zoe Saldana

#Insecure #Immature

Look at me. I’m skinny, I have a big nose, no ***** and no ass, but in a room full of beautiful women, I would still leave with the most gorgeous guy.
-- Zoe Saldana

#Beautiful #Guy #Looks

Britney's a very beautiful human being. After I worked with her, I realized that there was a reason why she was the most popular pop artist over so many other pop artists at that time who were more talented, had better voices. And it was because of her heart, her soulShe had the most amazing energy and was always positive and a very discreet person. We were young, too, and got to make a movie about three friends on a road trip. It was so much fun!
-- Zoe Saldana

#Beautiful #Fun #Heart

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

#Believe #Skins #Body

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

#Dance #Party #Voice

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.
-- Zoe Saldana

#Sex #Kings #Fun

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.
-- Zoe Saldana

#Daughter #Wife #Want

It's ok to say, 'this is what I want' and go after it.
-- Zoe Saldana

#Want

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.
-- Zoe Saldana

#Art #Character #Dancer

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

#Feel Good #Waiting #That One Person