Zoe Saldana
Zoe Saldana
Zoe Saldana-Perego, known professionally as Zoe Saldana, is an American actress and dancer. Following her performances with the FACES theater group, Saldana made her screen debut in an episode of Law & Order. Her film career began a year later with Center Stage, followed by a role in Crossroads. She first gained some prominence for her role as Anamaria in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth19 June 1978
CityPassaic, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
Zoe Saldana quotes about
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!
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.
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.
I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.
It's insecure, and it's immature.
Science fiction is a genre that no everyone is keen on watching.
Music is a very big participant in everything I do, from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed.
Fathers, sons, brothers, men everywhere: Your legacy will not perish if you take your partner's surname, or she keeps hers.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I am hoping for a long career.
I love the anxiety, the pressure of the loud room full of yapping kids. But I'm a kid myself.