Zoe Saldana Quotes

I always wanted to tell stories and act.

Character is plot, and casting is character.

All you ever really want is a great character and great writing. As an actor, that's the juiciest sandwich you could ever ask for.

I just like to go where the material is, whether that's TV, or movies, or the stage. As long as it's great writing, it's pretty much something I can't resist.

I'd say I'm definitely an actor first and foremost, but I love filmmaking.

As a child, I was always interested in drama and performance.

Movies are full of leading men, most of whom aren't working. It's much harder to find a good villain.

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.

Acting isn't necessarily pretending. It's storytelling. It's giving someone your perspective on something.

When I was in school, I was always writing scripts and dressing up as characters. I'd constantly be that guy who'd get up on stage. I used to write imaginary TV shows, like soap operas, for fun.

I still love finding the soul of the characters I play and defining who they are. This to me is my paint set, and the colors are always exciting to choose.

Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.

I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs.

I want to do better. I want to produce better stories. I want to do better plays.

It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way.

If I'm not clear with the character, I can't do anything with it. But once I get that character, the possibilities are endless. When you have such a defined character, I feel like I can actually read the phone book and make it funny.

I am a character actress. Well, let's say, I am a leading character actress who does interesting, odd parts.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it's nothing, and he was right.

I'm inspired every time I see a role I'd like to play, an actor turn in a well crafted performance, a story I'd like to tell, direct or produce.

When you're not playing the hero of the story, then you have to know that you're always a foil for the good guy. I love playing that. I think that's always an interesting place to be.

Listen, acting is not surgery, it's entertainment. You're doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But actors are vulnerable, and the reason we're vulnerable is that we're always trying to recreate human behaviour.

The Carrie in the plot was too much like the Carrie in the book. She smoked, she swore a lot, she was very hard, very cynical. I could never have pulled it off.

I think 'Game of Thrones' was extraordinary. I want to do some period pieces. It would be lovely to tell great stories, that is my main ambition. And to be working with amazing creators.