ZOE SALDANA

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

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

I like to look strong and commanding.

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.

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.

I have a hyper personality.

In dance you use every party of your body except your voice. I wanted to start acting because I wanted to use my voice.

It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.

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.

Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.

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'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.

I don't like things like little sandals that look fragile. I like to look strong and commanding.

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.