London.– Actress Zoe Saldana, who lived in her father's native Dominican Republic as a youngster, said doing ballet in her teens made her feel like dying from inside.

The actress enrolled in a specialized dance school in the Dominican Republic, but she quickly discovered she loathed ballet because she hated performing in silence.

"I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside. In dance, you use every part of your body except your voice. I wanted to start acting because I wanted to use my voice," Saldana told dailystar.co.uk.