Zoe Saldana Quotes

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

You see Justin Bieber and Robert Pattinson, what they go through, and dude, that's not as exciting as it looks.

I used to sit in my bedroom and think that all of my favourite pop stars go on stage, they sing, and then they do other normal stuff. I didn't know what goes on or what you let yourself in for.

It's great to tell people you have your own show, but that's where the fun stops.

When you're a writer and you're a producer, traditionally the junkets are really focused on the beautiful people and nobody wants to talk to you.

As I got older, I had a bunch of friends that were various teen stars. I've always known people in the spotlight and people who just grew up in L.A. and had nothing to do with the industry. It's not a glamorous thing to me. It's just a different type of business.

I believe in wishing my colleagues and other celebs in a manner that brings my wit out and gives people a talking point. But there are people who love and those who hate you. That's part of a celeb's life.

Bollywood is just like any other industry. It is just that people in this industry are constantly in the public eye.

Because of television, people are now more exposed about actors - one gets to know about actor's personal life. People know that we are just playing characters.

It's still hard for me to understand, what is to me, the morbid fascination with celebrity. I just want to sing, I want to work on my music, I want to make my movies, that's all I want to do. I understand, you know, the interest but I really don't understand the fascination with it.

When you look at the media and television, and all this Hollywood stuff, you just judge people.

People want to pick the leader, and we are obsessed with celebrity and whoever is on the cover of this or that.

People get starstruck when they meet me, it's quite funny.

As a star you never know when people are really serious.

People in Hollywood are not showmen, they're maintenance men, pandering to what they think their audiences want.

We've become so glorified in the movie-star system that it's become this artificial royalty. The truth is that we're circus clowns.

There are a lot of people who want to be famous nowadays: singers, actors and, you know, it's like a roller-coaster. And when you are very sensitive - I'm very sensitive - you have to be very strong... You have to just not pay attention to the people who hate you, you know?

There are so many third-rate people now who are more famous than people who should be famous, but sometimes people who could or should be famous are very boring, too.

I am not quite comfortable with people identifying themselves as my fans. You know nothing about me. You have just seen me perform in a film. How can you be my fan? If I have to tell you honestly, I want an audience and not fans.

But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people.

There's so much, I guess I want to say, nonsense about show business now. Because of reality television. I don't get this, because I was never raised to get this, but I don't understand wanting to be famous. Maybe it's because I was born famous, but I don't get it.

People think fame and money will bring you happiness. Fame actually makes life, especially human relationships, much more complicated.

The celebrity syndrome. When people forget who they are and start to believe what other people say about them.

We're interested by public personas and private personas, otherwise we wouldn't put on with actors rambling on with the same kind of stuff, over and over again, saying variations of the same thing. I'm always amazed by how fascinated people still are by actors because it's the same version of events that actors describe, all the time.

It is a surreal life living on a television series set, and especially when I go out in public. I have people who recognize me and will come up to me, saying how much they enjoy seeing me, asking for a picture, and I still think to myself, "Uh, why?"