Best Zoe Saldana Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

It's important for a director to provide as much information, especially when we're working with things that we have to conceive out of thin air. You can't just expect an actor to understand: 'Oh, there's a dinosaur coming at you. OK, so I'm going to automatically know how big it is and what it sounds like? I need details. How close does he get to me? How tall is he? What will the impact be of his cry when he's screaming at me or when he's blowing smoke or air in my face? — Zoe Saldana

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Zoe Saldana

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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." — Zoe Saldana

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

For me, it's very important if I do action movies and I have a stunt person, to work with them. Not only by memorizing the choreography but also it's important to study that individual and it's imperative for that individual to study you because you're not playing two different people, you're playing the same person. — Zoe Saldana

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

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

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

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