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. — Zoe Saldana

I do believe in us as actors and directors and writers and producers and also as movie–goers. We have much more power than we believe we have. Without our ticket, studios can’t make traditional decisions. — Zoe Saldana

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. — Zoe Saldana

Secretly, I’m a 5–year–old. — Laurie Hernandez

I tell everyone that I’m 5 feet–1 inch tall, but I think I’m technically 5 feet. My mom says she’s 4 feet 11 inches, and I’m barely taller than her. — Laurie Hernandez

You have to be very committed and find happiness in the work that you do. — Zoe Saldana

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. — Zoe Saldana

I hope the Final Five has shown that everyone is capable of success if they work hard. — Laurie Hernandez

To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina… means a lot to me. — Zoe Saldana

I want to be a role model. I want to be able to know that I inspired girls to work hard and go for their dreams and to never give up. — Laurie Hernandez

A goal of making it to the Olympic Games has motivated me to work very hard in my sport. — Laurie Hernandez

It’s insecure, and it’s immature. — Zoe Saldana

I would love to be an actress! — Laurie Hernandez

Being able to do something that I love and be at such a high level of gymnastics is just amazing. — Laurie Hernandez

I love performing for the crowd. Maybe that’s what it is. I’m a crowd pleaser. — Laurie Hernandez

I love my height because when I’m doing gymnastics, it really benefits the sport–and also, I think being short is kind of cute. — Laurie Hernandez

I love wearing men’s clothing and underwear. — Zoe Saldana

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

I would love to play Nefertiti or Cleopatra or the Queen of Sheba. We preserve more male history than we do female. We have to preserve [female history]. No more complaining. We have to do it. — Zoe Saldana

I love skin. I don’t believe the body is something to hide. — Zoe Saldana

I want to have more sex, travel more, drink more wine and love life. — Zoe Saldana

I love listening to music in general before I compete. It’s something that calms me down, and meditating and breathing before I get up there to calm all my nerves. — Laurie Hernandez

I love the anxiety, the pressure of the loud room full of yapping kids. But I’m a kid myself. — Zoe Saldana

When I was 5, I was always joking around like, ‘Oh man, I wanna go to the Olympics.’ — Laurie Hernandez

I never look at scores or anything. — Laurie Hernandez

Every time an adult is going to write something for a teenager and you don’t have, physically, a person who is that, you are always going to be a little off. — Zoe Saldana

Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there–and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time. — Zoe Saldana

I want to make sure I always show off my smile and have a positive attitude the whole time, whether it’s during a performance, practice, or doing an interview. — Laurie Hernandez

A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time. — Zoe Saldana

I always strive to keep a balance with my fears. I don’t like to be ruled by them. At the same time, I don’t like the idea of living my life totally free of any fears. I like having that moderation. — Zoe Saldana

Sometimes we get too caught up in wanting to do that one movie that will get seen and approved and nominated, that we lose sight that there are so many other movies that are worth your time. — Zoe Saldana

Everyone keeps asking me when I have time to rest. I’ll tell you when: I get all my sleep on planes. If the flight is five hours, my nap is five hours! I’ll sleep through the whole flight. — Laurie Hernandez

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. — Zoe Saldana

We’re all different, so even though someone is getting a skill before you, it doesn’t mean that you’re not good enough; it just means you have to wait a little bit, and the skill will come when it comes. — Laurie Hernandez

In Gymnastics, there is no such thing as an overnight success. — Laurie Hernandez

Having the opportunity to go to the U.S. Olympics was great because I was the first Latina in over 30 years to compete in gymnastics at the Olympics. — Laurie Hernandez

The heels played a big role. for gymnastics you’re barefoot 100 percent of The time. — Laurie Hernandez

My earliest memory was watching gymnastics on live TV and wanting to do what the ‘big girls’ did. — Laurie Hernandez

I started a gymnastics class at five years old, but it became serious at seven. — Laurie Hernandez

Look at me. I’m skinny, I have a big nose, no tits and no ass, but in a room full of beautiful women, I would still leave with the most gorgeous guy. — Zoe Saldana

I love women. I worship women. Don’t want to be any other woman but myself. — Zoe Saldana

The biggest obstacle I’ve had to overcome is being a woman in a man’s world. — Zoe Saldana

I want to be in the small percentage of women who don’t settle for conventional roles. — Zoe Saldana

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. — Zoe Saldana

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. — Zoe Saldana

The biggest battle that I have is being a woman in the world. That takes center stage for me. — Zoe Saldana

On the basis of being a woman, by playing an alien, I avoid playing someone’s girlfriend here on Earth because that’s a bit of a canker sore. — Zoe Saldana

Life has been a really big whirlwind, but it’s been a lot of fun. I travel so much, and I’m constantly doing things that I love, but it’s just me. — Laurie Hernandez

Sometimes we have to be patient because the one thing that is inevitable in life is evolution. Whether it comes at the pace that we are expecting it or not, it’s inevitable. — Zoe Saldana

I’m a kid from New York, so urban life reflected into art and music was around me and accessible and tangible. — Zoe Saldana

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. — Zoe Saldana

My whole life revolved around gymnastics because I loved it so much. I home–schooled because of it; I changed my eating habits. — Laurie Hernandez