Michelle Rodriguez

I had older brothers who would pick on me, and injustice always boiled my blood.

— Michelle Rodriguez

I am looking forward to seeing my buddy Colin represent in front of Pacino. That's sweet.

— Michelle Rodriguez

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

— Michelle Rodriguez

My dad was more, "Let's play chess. Read a book, you're stupid." He's more the intellectual type.

— Michelle Rodriguez

People forget we come from an embryo and we're part sperm and part ovary. We have both sides in us.

— Michelle Rodriguez

I just love feeling myself, and moving, flexing, jumping, expressing, dancing and doing movement. I'm in tune with it. I like to…

— Michelle Rodriguez

I knew nothing about the independent film industry. I didn't know much about the industry itself. All I knew was how to…

— Michelle Rodriguez

I want them to listen to me for what I am saying. And I think the best way to do that is…

— Michelle Rodriguez

I do what I want, when I want, how I want, and because of that, it has taken me so long to…

— Michelle Rodriguez

I would like to see a fierce Fantasia mixed with Blade Runner, Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars all in one.…

— Michelle Rodriguez

I also love the makers of South Park, because they're political, strong, and they're making all of these comments that would get…

— Michelle Rodriguez

When I was about, I'd say, 18 or 19 years old, I wanted to be a part of the CIA just because…

— Michelle Rodriguez

At school, I was this tomboy kid who just loved to hang out with her friends and learn curse words, trying to…

— Michelle Rodriguez

I wanted to express myself. I wanted to be creative and I didn't want to worry about someone bossing me around in…

— Michelle Rodriguez

I've always been and will always be very private about my personal life. If anything ever goes public, it is by default,…

— Michelle Rodriguez

The roughest thing was learning the realities of the world at such a young age. I was 10 or 11, going to…

— Michelle Rodriguez

I didn't know how to box so I would have looked like a complete street fighter actually, but what we did have…

— Michelle Rodriguez

I just want that unconditional love, the kind you get with a family member. You might get lucky enough to find that…

— Michelle Rodriguez

I'm a lone wolf. I run by myself on most things. I've got lots of really great friends, but the thought of…

— Michelle Rodriguez

I heard that the guy who invented the Jehovah's Witnesses was a Mason.That kind of turned me off, because when something's mysterious,…

— Michelle Rodriguez

No matter what, people are so narrow minded that it won't ever be Michelle Rodriguez the actress, it will always be Michelle…

— Michelle Rodriguez

There's only a handful of directors who really understand what I call the alchemical balance between a man and a woman, in…

— Michelle Rodriguez

I use to watch like maybe three or four movies, five days out of the week. I was a movie buff, but…

— Michelle Rodriguez

I was in Jersey when the whole World Trade Center thing happened and I felt powerless. So, I went to Hawaii and…

— Michelle Rodriguez

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

— Michelle Rodriguez

Whenever a female takes a strong stand for herself, the majority of the time they have to really, really narrow it down…

— Michelle Rodriguez

Growing up in Jersey City was interesting. I got to learn a lot about different cultures: I had Hindu friends, Middle Eastern…

— Michelle Rodriguez

Jersey is my hometown, and I love it. I'll probably have houses in other places, but that's my home, and nobody's kicking…

— Michelle Rodriguez

I'm always researching ancient religions, and I was also raised Jehovah's Witness, so that kind of scarred me for life.

— Michelle Rodriguez

Maybe I exclude myself from that genre by not getting dressed up often enough, by acting ghetto most of the time, and…

— Michelle Rodriguez

I don't think it's narcissistic at all to love yourself and believe in yourself. I think some people are really scared to…

— Michelle Rodriguez

I went to business school but left after four months because I just didn't want to be a puppet of society, stuck…

— Michelle Rodriguez

I used to go over to my friend's house and we'd watch VCR tapes, three of them a day, and I was…

— Michelle Rodriguez

Sometimes I wake up in awe that I'm alive. I can't get over that part, so I guess it makes me kind…

— Michelle Rodriguez

I love action. I love to move my body. Any chance I have to do that in my youth, I'll definitely jump…

— Michelle Rodriguez

I was hanging out in gers [yurts] with these Kazakh sort of Bedouins. Drank nasty-ass camel milk. The drive [from the Souther…

— Michelle Rodriguez

Milla Jovovich introduced me to [anthropologist and author of the Don Juan series of books involving shamanic peyote rituals] Carlos Castaneda because…

— Michelle Rodriguez

The egos in this industry are incredibly vulnerable and everybody's afraid to wipe out. So everybody plays it safe and everybody tells…

— Michelle Rodriguez

I think empathy is a beautiful thing. I think that's the power of film though. We have one of the most powerful,…

— Michelle Rodriguez

The Dewey decimal system really works. So that's all I needed to know. Elementary school taught me that.

— Michelle Rodriguez