Latest Zoe Saldana Quotes from Interviews

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• Trust me: Studios, investors, filmmakers, they will shift because they just follow the money trail.

  Zoe Saldana

  Trust Me, Trails, Filmmaker

  "'Star Trek Beyond' stars on 'uncomfortable conversations,' Sulu's sexual orientation and the future". Interview with Marc Bernardin, www.latimes.com. July 21, 2016.

• Sometimes we get too caught up in wanting to do that one movie that will get seen and approved and nominated, that we lose sight that there are so many other movies that are worth your time.

  Zoe Saldana

  Sight, Sometimes, Worth Your Time

  "'Star Trek Beyond' stars on 'uncomfortable conversations,' Sulu's sexual orientation and the future". Interview with Marc Bernardin, www.latimes.com. July 21, 2016.

• I do believe in us as actors and directors and writers and producers and also as movie-goers. We have much more power than we believe we have. Without our ticket, studios can't make traditional decisions.

  Zoe Saldana

  Believe, Decision, Directors

  "'Star Trek Beyond' stars on 'uncomfortable conversations,' Sulu's sexual orientation and the future". Interview with Marc Bernardin, www.latimes.com. July 21, 2016.

• If there's any relevant influence we may have with an investor, with a studio, with a director, with an actor, I think we have to fight.

  Zoe Saldana

  Fighting, Thinking, Directors

  "'Star Trek Beyond' stars on 'uncomfortable conversations,' Sulu's sexual orientation and the future". Interview with Marc Bernardin, www.latimes.com. July 21, 2016.

• Let's start creating better roles that accurately depict people we know so closely.

  Zoe Saldana

  Creating, People, Roles

  "'Star Trek Beyond' stars on 'uncomfortable conversations,' Sulu's sexual orientation and the future". Interview with Marc Bernardin, www.latimes.com. July 21, 2016.

• I think there are roles there; we just have to choose them. We have to fight for them.

  Zoe Saldana

  Fighting, Thinking, Roles

  "'Star Trek Beyond' stars on 'uncomfortable conversations,' Sulu's sexual orientation and the future". Interview with Marc Bernardin, www.latimes.com. July 21, 2016.

• I'm a fan of the fan. I'm a fan of the active devotee who lives his life believing in something, who represents to me the character of a person that is very confident and sure of himself. Those are people I admire.

  Zoe Saldana

  Believe, Character, People

  "'Star Trek Beyond' stars on 'uncomfortable conversations,' Sulu's sexual orientation and the future". Interview with Marc Bernardin, www.latimes.com. July 21, 2016.

• I'm a kid from New York, so urban life reflected into art and music was around me and accessible and tangible.

  Zoe Saldana

  Art, New York, Kids

  "'Star Trek Beyond' stars on 'uncomfortable conversations,' Sulu's sexual orientation and the future". Interview with Marc Bernardin, www.latimes.com. July 21, 2016.

• There was this book that Judi Dench wrote that said there was a moment where, before an actor can be this or be that, the actor must simply be. I thought that to have absolute presence was to absorb everything that’s thrown at you.

  Zoe Saldana

  Actors

  "Blu-Ray/DVD Essentials: Zoe Saldana on 'Guardians of the Galaxy'". Interview with Earl Dittman, www.digitaljournal.com. December 07, 2014.

• I was a ballet dancer for so long, but when I realized I had reached my limit and that I couldn't go any further I knew I wanted to pursue acting. That's one thing you don't use as a dancer - your voice. And the one thing I use most in my life is my voice so it's wonderful to get to express myself artistically through the biggest instrument I use.

  Zoe Saldana

  Voice, Long, Dancer

  "Blu-Ray/DVD Essentials: Zoe Saldana on 'Guardians of the Galaxy'". Interview with Earl Dittman, www.digitaljournal.com. December 07, 2014.

• 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

  Impact, Air, Important

  "Zoe Saldana on Make-up, Stunts, & being a Guardian of the Galaxy". ComicMix Interview, www.comicmix.com. December 8, 2014.

• 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

  Adventure, Character, Artist

• 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

  Reading, Avid, People

  "Zoe Saldana Talks Being Green for Four Months, Avoiding the Comics, and More on the Set of GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 8, 2014.

• 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.

  Zoe Saldana

  Girlfriend, Playing Someone, Earth

  "‘Guardians’ Interview: Zoe Saldana on Going Green and the Importance of Teenage Boys". www.slashfilm.com. July 10, 2014.

• 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

  Two, People, Important

  Source: screenrant.com

• You have to be very committed and find happiness in the work that you do.

  Zoe Saldana

  Finding Happiness, Committed

  "Zoe Saldana ‘Star Trek’ Interview with Kam Williams". newsblaze.com. May 04, 2009.

• I find it really frustrating when people go, "I want to be famous and glamorous like you."

  Zoe Saldana

  People, Want, Like You

  "Zoe Saldana ‘Star Trek’ Interview with Kam Williams". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. May 4, 2009.

• I find it really frustrating when people go, "I want to be famous and glamorous like you." It's hard for me not to have a bad thought when someone says that to me, since if there's anything this business is not, is glamorous. It's only glamorous for maybe five minutes every now and then.

  Zoe Saldana

  People, Want, Like You

  "Zoe Saldana ‘Star Trek’ Interview with Kam Williams". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. May 4, 2009.

• 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

  Beautiful, Coffee, Humility

• 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

  Pace, Be Patient, Evolution

  "Zoe Saldana ‘Star Trek’ Interview with Kam Williams". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. May 4, 2009.

• The biggest obstacle I've had to overcome is being a woman in a man's world.

  Zoe Saldana

  Men, Overcoming, World

  "Zoe Saldana ‘Star Trek’ Interview with Kam Williams". newsblaze.com. May 4, 2009.

• 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

  Falling In Love, Stars, Character

  "Zoe Saldana ‘Star Trek’ Interview with Kam Williams". newsblaze.com. May 4, 2009.

• 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

  Ideas, Balance, Living My Life

  "Zoe Saldana ‘Star Trek’ Interview with Kam Williams". newsblaze.com. May 4, 2009.

• I never really watched the TV series.

  Zoe Saldana

  Tvs, Tv Series, Series

  "Zoe Saldana ‘Star Trek’ Interview with Kam Williams". newsblaze.com. May 04, 2009.

• 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

  Source: movieweb.com