Salma Hayek Quotes

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Salma Hayek

Profession : Actress

Birth : September 2, 1966

I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves him. She does it out of love. She wants him so badly to stay with her.

Salma Hayek

There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.

Salma Hayek

I don't want to be size zero and I'm glad I'm not.

Salma Hayek

How I would describe my characters is absolutely different from how I would describe myself.

Salma Hayek

I know the only reason that I haven't gotten many good parts is because I am Latin - and they tell it to my face a lot of times.

Salma Hayek

Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.

Salma Hayek

When I first came to Hollywood I was told to go out with an agent because it was good for my career. So I went to a party with him because it was good for my 'career.' Well, he thought the whole thing was a big date. Needless to say, I was very upset.

Salma Hayek

My driving abilities from Mexico have helped me get through Hollywood.

Salma Hayek

And I highly recommend for all the women in the world, even if they're 71, you can never take for granted that he loves you. It's always good to flirt with him. It's a great sport.

Salma Hayek

For me, I have to say that I like to work a lot too, but I like not working better. The perfect scenario is when you just worked and you know something's coming up, then you have four, five, six months off. But you know you're going to have a job later.

Salma Hayek

I aim for a lifetime full of movies.

Salma Hayek

I also have a film coming up called Breaking Up, and my part in that was not written for a Latina, and my character is not particularly pretty or sexy or exotic.

Salma Hayek

I directed a movie and now, I'm going to do the editing.

Salma Hayek

I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that's what I love.

Salma Hayek

I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it.

Salma Hayek

I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.

Salma Hayek

I want to work for a long, long time and keep growing in my work, and if I am very lucky and very blessed, maybe somewhere along the line there will be one movie in there that becomes a classic.

Salma Hayek

If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational.

Salma Hayek

So you have to keep waiting and then they give you the script and it's terrible. Then you have to go to the rewrite and they're very upset because you didn't like it. I went through that for seven years.

Salma Hayek

There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.

Salma Hayek