Quotes from 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.

Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.

Call me crazy - I love elk meat!

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

I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.

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'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.

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

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

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.

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.

I love women. I worship women. Don't want to be any other woman but myself.

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

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.

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.

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.