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Michelle Rodriguez Biography

Michelle Rodriguez

Mayte Michelle Rodriguez (born July 12, 1978) is an American actress. Her breakout role was as a troubled boxer in the independent film Girlfight (2000), which was met with critical acclaim and earned her several awards, including the Independent Spirit Award and Gotham Award for Best Debut Performance. The following year, she starred as Letty in the blockbuster film The Fast and the Furious (2001), a role she has reprised in four additional films in the Fast and Furious franchise. During her career, Rodriguez has played in a number of successful action films, including Resident Evil, S.W.A.T., and Avatar.

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I'd done two years' worth of extra work, and all my friends who I would go on auditions with went to school for acting. These were kids who knew when they were 14 years old that this was what they wanted to do with their lives, and they prepared for it, and they're getting canned at every audition.

Extra, Kids, Old, School, Work, Years

The roughest thing was learning the realities of the world at such a young age. I was 10 or 11, going to church, hearing the adults standing on the podium talking about world affairs, about history, about war, and how America was founded.

America, Realities, Reality, Standing, War, World

It's easy for me to work with other girls because I'm a tomboy and I don't want the guy, your boyfriend - I'm not interested in looking better than you, so don't worry. Fail or win, whatever it is, I need to go do stuff.

Girl, Winning, Worry, Win, Interested, Stuff

You can keep knocking me down forever, I'll keep getting up and trying.

Forever, Keep, Knocking, Trying

I just loved storytelling. That's what I thought I would end up doing. I thought I would probably go to school and end up writing for a magazine or something.

Magazine, Magazines, Probably, School, Writing

I trained with an ex-Navy Seal. We shot a lot of guns. Real bullets. . . I underwent commando training.

Bullets, Commando, Gun, Real, Training

I wish that something interesting would come across the desk. I'm bored by what people think is interesting.

Across, Interesting, People, Thinking, Wish

I just want that unconditional love, the kind you get with a family member. You might get lucky enough to find that unconditional love in a friend or a lover, but it's very rare. So if I ever have a kid, it'd be so that I could look in those eyes and know that this child is a piece of me and will love me the same way I love, but I think that's selfish of me.

Children, Eye, Family, Kind, Rare, Selfish

I have absolutely nothing consistent in my life. But that's where serendipity comes in and I love that. One day I'm going to have to sacrifice that to bring life into the world. But the more I can hold off on that, the happier I'll be. It's scary for me.

Happier, Hold, Nothing, Sacrifice, Scary, Serendipity

Sometimes I'd knock on the door of somebody I was going to school with, so it was like living a double life.

Doors, Life, Like, School, Somebody, Sometimes

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.

Beautiful, Empathy, Film, Men, Powerful

I think that, if aliens did exist, they would exist at a higher frequency. Being at a higher frequency, you would have to be more evolved than what we consider to be evolved. If there were aliens, I personally believe they would have to resonate at a higher frequency to be able to time travel, or to blink in and out of dimension.

Able, Believe, Dimension, Exist, Think, Thinking

I've been part of really big things that are amazing, but I haven't taken on that responsibility yet. So I don't want to sell myself short by having a kid and then regret not doing what I set out to do.

Big, Kids, Regret, Responsibility, Sell, Taken

I don't like weak women and I don't find it interesting to play them. I'm inspired by them, when I see them in dramas, like with Natalie Portman, in almost every movie she's in. It's awesome that chicks can really go there, and it's beautiful to watch, but I don't think I'm interested, in any way, shape or form, in embodying those creatures.

Beautiful, Drama, Inspired, Interested, Thinking, Women

It's nice having a heart and a pussy too!

Having, Heart, Nice, Pussy

I do have a delicate side.

Sides, Delicate, Side

I think there are three types of actors. There are the ones that do the ego thing, which is "I'm never going to look bad in a movie, ever. " This is mostly the action film dudes, like, "Nah, hell no. He ain't punchin' me! I'd whoop his ass!"

Ego, Look, Nah, Think, Thinking, Three

I wanted to write a film and I thought the best way to do so was to train myself within the field. . . It was just like a cycle of people trying to make it, not making it, doing extra work, and it was pretty depressing in the end.

Depressing, Writing, People, Extra, Thought

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.

English, Mom, Texas, Till, Word, Years

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.

Hollywood, Latin, Lopez, Perez, Rosie

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