Salma Hayek Quotes

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Salma Hayek

Profession : Actress

Birth : September 2, 1966

Love food and I love to eat.

Salma Hayek

I don't believe in the so-called Latino explosion when it comes to movies. Jennifer Lopez doesn't have an accent. She grew up in New York speaking English, not Spanish. Her success is very important because she represents a different culture, but it doesn't help me.

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I love to cook when I have the time. I don't cook French or Mexican food with exact recipes. I just go to the supermarket and buy things that look good, and I mix it all together and invent something. Ninety-five percent of the time, I'm lucky. Sometimes not so lucky, and I say, 'Let's go out to dinner.'

Salma Hayek

What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.

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I think it's important that kids have responsibilities and understand the value of things, but I think it's great I get to travel the world with my daughter.

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I have tried my whole life to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride.

Salma Hayek

Do I envy Madonna's body? Yes. Do I thank God that she has it? Yes! If you're fifty-something and you look like Madonna, and you put a lifetime's work in the way you look, then flash it to the world!

Salma Hayek

The thought of somebody pulling and cutting around my face gives me stomach ache. Plastic surgery would be so painful. What if it doesn't look good? What if they made a mistake? I couldn't do it.

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I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children.

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I want my little girl to tell me who she is so I can encourage her and not impose my desires for her on her life. I want her to dream big and to know that if she is willing to earn it, she can have anything - and become anything.

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I was privileged to grow up in Mexico at a time when you could play in the streets. We lived not too far from the ocean, and we would be outside all the time with the neighbours' kids, running free. What better place could there be for a child?

Salma Hayek

I think it's nice for women to try to be sexy for their man.

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No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.

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I'm good at working, but I'm very good at playing.

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I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.

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I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.

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You can have a spiritual awakening and discover a new side of you at any age. And best of all, love can happen at any age. Life can just start to get exciting when you're in your 40s and 50s. You have to believe that.

Salma Hayek

I received so many hate letters when I breast-fed a starving baby in Africa. I was in Sierra Leone in 2009 and I was weaning my child at that time - she was not there with me. There was a hungry baby who was crying because his mother had no milk, and I thought, 'Why throw away my milk if I can give it to a baby who needs it?'

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I don't see women and think of them as competition or with judgment. Women really move me. I feel connected to all kinds of women. I am angry because I think we've been mistreated throughout history in different countries, including America. I admire women.

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The truth is, I just don't have the drive to be the prettiest and the thinnest. I can be happy for other people for their beauty.

Salma Hayek