so I get a lot of bikers and race car drivers hitting on me. They're all just playboys,
so they don't interest me."
On Eden
"I thought it was going to be some cliched thing going on where I'd have to fight to get -- you know what I mean, those battles you gotta do. But nope, no battling here. It was all good. Everything went by crunchy-crunchy."
"Men just like to see sexy women, whether they're strong or weak, and my screen characters appeal to certain types of men."
On Vin Diesel
"Fierce voice too, man....fierce voice too."
"It's hard to be in a relationship when you're in this business. Guys don't want to paddle along as if they're your lap dog."
On The Fast and The Furious
"It's about chick body parts and car parts, and working opposite Vin, who I get to make out with quite a bit, has been really great."
On the turn down for Tomb Raider
"They said they knew I could kick butt but my boobs were too small. Then they turned around and padded Angelina (Jolie) anyway."
On Vin Diesel
"He's got this body that just- - that is just so present and so fierce and powerful looking. It's kind of hard for people I think and directors to get past that."
On Colin Farrell and Britney Spears
"Britney is a pick of the week," she told a friend at a party. "She will not tie him down. If she does, I will hand her the golden whip!"
On Vin Diesel
"Nobody saw us kissing anywhere. I don't think..."
On Resident Evil's Cast
"It’s not like, you know, we were working with a bunch of prissy asses who were like, oh god, you know, get that away from me, you know, all serious and shit. I hate people like that. It’s kind of annoying, you know."
"I think the film [Girlfight] tells women to make their own choices and do what they wish, and stop trying to please the world around them. If you like hanging out with guys more than you like hanging out with girls, then do. Its important for characters like Diana to exist in a film, because it's a message that women need to hear from other women. We need that support."
"I auditioned for the Jada Pinkett role in The Matrix Reloaded and I was more interested in asking them how they made the first film than I was in getting the role. I suck at auditions. I'm completely horrible without the pressure of real-life cameras and millions of dollars in front of me. Without that pressure,I'm not fully there. I'm just like, 'Whatever.'
On the similarities of her and Diana *Girlfight*
"I think she has that same drive for life and that same drive to satisfy her
curiosity and that same drive to find what she wants to do with herself. Now, she found it and I still haven't. Poor me."
On her religious upbringing
"I grew up a Jehovah's Witness because my grandmother was really influencing that lifestyle on me. That is a very morally intense religion. And although they keep you from experiencing a lot of the bad things that can really hurt you out there in the world, they are also depriving you from experiencing life. And a lot of things you learn from after being in life."
The trainer from Girlfight, On Michelle
"Whoa, whoa, you're gonna kill me with those eyes."
Vin Diesel, On a rumored romance with Michelle
"Some questions are best answered with a smile of delight....you can write what you think, and
I do not doubt that you would be accurate."
Colin Farrell,On Michelle, After she threatens to shove a gun up someone's ass
"You think she's joking, think again. You wouldn't fuck around with her, seriously, she'd kill ya. She's great."
On Hollywood
"I used to think they really meant what they said in those interviews and then you
get inside and you see these actors and how bitchy they are and how they think they're God."
"You see all these actors who think they're better than you, and all you can do is feel sorry for them 'cause they ain't got their feet. And that shit has jaded me man."- "The egos in this industry are incredibly vulnerable and everybody's afraid to wipe out. So everybody plays it safe and everybody tells everybody else how great they are."
"I always related to the guy in an action movie. I never wanted to be the girl.....I was always considered butch. I cultivated the image. It was my defence against having to be a sex object like the other girls in my class....the boys considered me one of the guys until I finally developed breasts."
"No matter what, people are so narrow minded that it won't ever be Michelle Rodriguez
the actress, it will always be Michelle Rodriguez the latin actress. And it's just something
that i have to live with, because of the fact that people need labels to understand things. I can't even get into this ignorance that I'm dealing with. So, I just ignore it, you know? Ignore the ignorance."
Interviewer-- "What makes women sexy?"
Michelle-- "Her brains....and if she ain't got none she gives it!"
On her stardom
"My life hasn't slowed down long enough for me to savour what's happening. There are days I wonder if I've made the right decisions in picking my movies."
On Life
"I just think people need to open their minds to it, and just stop trying to hold other people
down."
On her looks
"It really is all in the genes. If you want your kid to have a good physique, have sex with a
Haitian. My dad is an army guy and a teacher who came from the Dominican Republic."
"I felt so fiercely liberated in Berlin. That city is just exploding. I went to places where there
were a bunch of naked people smoking joints. It wasn't an orgy. It was just people being so open and natural. The Kit Kat Club that was featured in the movie Cabaret still exists and it is really crazy. Jersey seems so uptight after Berlin. I still live in Jersey."
''It's not easy for people to get me because I have different colors, different rays. You've got my Jersey City side, which is so ghetto. Like, hello! And you have the side of me that's a complete sci-fi geek. And you got that side of me that loves and cares for the world and cries during Lilo and Stitch."
"People take me the wrong way -either i wanna fuck you or i hate your guts. I'm just a big
misunderstood love-ball."
Rob Cohen, Director *Fast & Furious*
"Michelle Rodriguez has burst out as a new female force to be dealt with. We didn’t
really have a part for her. And we started to write a part, this part of Letty. And then I
evolved it further to become Vin Diesel’s love interest. You know, she came out here all
toughness and attitude. Like many people who are like that, she has a very sweet nature. Very,
very proud and happy that she’s in our film. We’re very lucky to have her."
Vin Diesel on Michelle
"Stunning!"
Kate Bosworth, On Michelle
"Michelle hated the maid thing. I have pictures of her sitting in her costume, looking like a little
girl who didn't get dessert."
