98+ Zoe Saldana Quotes On Confidence, Versatile And Charismatic

Zoe Saldana is an American actress. She is known for her roles in the films Avatar, Guardians of the Galaxy, and Star Trek. She has also appeared in films such as Colombiana, The Losers, and Out of the Furnace. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Zoe Saldana on confidence, versatile, charismatic.

Top 10 Zoe Saldana Quotes

1. 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.
2. I have a hyper personality.
3. Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.
4. 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.
5. A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time.
6. Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
7. I want to have more sex, travel more, drink more wine and love life.
8. 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.
9. It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.
10. 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 Short Quotes

• I like to look strong and commanding.
• I'm learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company.
• Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.
• I don't like things like little sandals that look fragile. I like to look strong and commanding.
• I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.
• I'm Latin - we start young, honey!
• I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.
• Science fiction is a genre that no everyone is keen on watching.
• The biggest obstacle I've had to overcome is being a woman in a man's world.
• I think there are roles there; we just have to choose them. We have to fight for them.

Zoe Saldana Quotes About Love

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I love women. I worship women. Don’t want to be any other woman but myself. — Zoe Saldana

Zoe Saldana Quotes About Character

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

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

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

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

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

Zoe Saldana Quotes About Life

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

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

I want to love life. — Zoe Saldana

I've witnessed racism all my life. And of course there's racism and discrimination in Hollywood. You go for a part and they say, 'Oh, we really liked her, she's amazing, but we wanted to go with something more traditional'. As if I'm not a traditional American! — Zoe Saldana

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

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

Zoe Saldana Quotes About People

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Zoe Saldana Famous Quotes And Sayings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It's insecure, and it's immature. — 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 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 am hoping for a long career. — Zoe Saldana

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I never really watched the TV series. — Zoe Saldana

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Life Lessons by Zoe Saldana

1. Zoe Saldana has demonstrated that hard work and dedication can lead to success, no matter what obstacles you may face.
2. She has also shown that it is important to stay true to yourself and your values, and to never give up on your dreams.
3. Lastly, Saldana has proven that it is possible to make a difference in the world and to use your platform to inspire and empower others.