Zitat des Tages von Zoe Saldana:
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'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 don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.
I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.
To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me.
Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Call me crazy - I love elk meat!
I love the anxiety, the pressure of the loud room full of yapping kids. But I'm a kid myself.
Physical roles give me a chance to learn something new.
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.
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.
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.
When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.
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 very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally.
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.
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 am fluent in Spanish and I understand French, Italian and Portuguese.
Every character has their reasons - even the characters who do dumb things.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 get along very well with animals and children. I dig them, I get them.
Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.
I have a hyper personality.
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.
I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.
A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time.
I want to love life.
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.