Explore Quotes by Zoe Saldana

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

I like to look strong and commanding.

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.

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

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'm Latin - we start young, honey!

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.