Quotes from Michelle Rodriguez

I love action. I love to move my body. Any chance I have to do that in my youth, I'll definitely jump towards it, for sure.

I want them to listen to me for what I am saying. And I think the best way to do that is to sniff my armpits, and like, sit and burp every now and then.

When I was about, I'd say, 18 or 19 years old, I wanted to be a part of the CIA just because they know those intimate secrets... So I was just always into knowing. I like to know things.

I just decided to play make believe, memorize it like it was just some kind of song and just take the emotion out of the words. And I did. I goofed a couple of times.

I went to business school but left after four months because I just didn't want to be a puppet of society, stuck in an office, craving some sunlight.

People forget we come from an embryo and we're part sperm and part ovary. We have both sides in us.

I don't see the point of marriage. But when I need my love, I get my love.

I think empathy is a beautiful thing. I think that's the power of film though. We have one of the most powerful, one of the greatest communicative tools known to man.

The whole surf culture is starting to embrace women a lot more.

I don't have much history - I've got Rosie Perez, Jennifer Lopez, Rita Moreno. That's it. That's the history of Latin women in Hollywood, really.

I didn't know how to box so I would have looked like a complete street fighter actually, but what we did have to do was pick up some sides and then just memorize them within two days and go there and audition.

I learned that you can make a sci-fi film that is satisfying overseas. European people have everything in check. I'd make every sci-fi film in Europe. They only work 14 hours a day. After that, it's overtime.

I wouldn't want to sacrifice the last years that I have of being youthful in this business to have kids.

The more confidence you have in yourself and the more you believe that you are destined to do what you are gonna do, it will happen.

My dad was more, "Let's play chess. Read a book, you're stupid." He's more the intellectual type.

The Dewey decimal system really works. So that's all I needed to know. Elementary school taught me that.

Guys are so predictable. They can't seem to separate fantasy from reality, so I get a lot of bikers and race car drivers hitting on me. They're all just playboys, so they don't interest me.

Going to car racing school was phenomenal.

The best part of making the movies... learning from the pros themselves.

I was born in Texas and I lived there 'till I was 8. Then I moved to the Dominican Republic with my mom, lived there for two years and forgot every word of English I knew.

Basically I was a rebel growing up. I got kicked out of six schools. But I don't think that it makes you less of an intellect. You know, if you ever crave knowledge, there's always a library.

I use to watch like maybe three or four movies, five days out of the week. I was a movie buff, but I really didn't know what it was like behind the scenes, or the whole political process of it.