Salma Quotes & Sayings

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

Life is tough; and if you have the ability to laugh at it, you have the ability to enjoy it. — Salma Hayek

Humans are probably the only creatures who know that they will die. They know for certain and yet they keep going. A resilient spirit and a need to survive does not make for cowardice.
Salma to Merrick in Simple Conversation — Sonia Rumzi

Leave it to the Catholics to destroy existence. — Salma Hayek

A mother is willing and capable of doing anything for her children. You can justify it if you do something for your children, especially as a Mexican mother. I don't know about some other nationalities, but the Mexican mothers are like that. They will do anything for their children. — Salma Hayek

Imagine if I'd said, 'I have to be the best actress - I want that and nothing else.' I never would have directed. I never would have produced. I never would have done a beauty line. I would have just worried about getting a job or been frustrated that I wasn't getting the job that I wanted. I was ready to be a businesswoman. — Salma Hayek

My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time! — Salma Hayek

You won't be able to take your eyes off the next four presenters: Salma Hayek and Penelope Cruz. — Chris Rock

I think being able to be malleable is a great weapon and I'm a very, very good strategist. I create the most amazing strategies in my head and I have created the most extraordinary strategies in my head for my career ... — Salma Hayek

when i love, it happens almost all at once.
it is inconsiderate, unrefined -
a child screeching in a supermarket
it's a thunderclap.
it is a small village blackout.
it is aphrodite rising from the sea foam, fully formed. — Salma Deera

Sometimes evolving doesn't mean transforming; sometimes it just means owning what is there. — 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

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

It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you've been hurt a lot it becomes appealing. — Salma Hayek

I think if you are young and you have children, you still have so much to prove. When you have children later in life, you lose a bit of that urge for working. — Salma Hayek

If a man lets all of my dogs sleep in the bed with us, then that is the most romantic thing. You must love my dogs in order to love me. A man who is nice to my animals and doesn't shoo them away - well, that's the height of romance. — 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

I do have a Mexican accent, but that doesn't mean that I'm a Latin vamp. — Salma Hayek

After doing a juice cleanse, I'm motivated to eat healthier and not emotionally. Cleansing is like my meditation. It makes me stop, focus and think about what I'm putting into my body. I'm making a commitment to my health and hitting the reset button. — 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

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

I can learn my lines fine. It's just reading them in the first place that is the problem. — Salma Hayek

They thought I was crazy in Mexico when I said, 'I'm going to Hollywood.' Nobody thought I could make it. — Salma Hayek

but tell me, who was it that made you dangerous?

it was no one.

it was me.


it was everyone. — Salma Deera

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. — 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

What you need is one black dress I call Plan B. It doesn't have to be fabulous, it just looks good, covers up the problems and is neutral enough for dinner, business, a date, a funeral. You don't overwear it, you don't overwash it, because the Plan B is - gold. — Salma Hayek

In fighting for women, we fight for humanity. We fight for the future
for everyone. — Salma Hayek

it's like this:
say there's a whole room of people and you're somewhere in the middle of them all.
i walk in and i see you, but you don't suddenly become the only person in the room. god no. you become the room. you are the room. — Salma Deera

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

but i want to ask her what is wrong with being dark and heavy
with your feet firmly on soil? — Salma Deera

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

I'm a bit of an abstract figure that people can project their fantasies on; it's pretty much what we all are, otherwise we wouldn't be stars, and people wouldn't be interested. But people project things on you that have nothing to do with what you really are, or they see a little something and then exaggerate it. And you can't really control that. — Salma Hayek

When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight. — Salma Hayek

Life, I've got lots of friends. I don't complain. — Salma Hayek

Try to figure out who you really are and not who you want other people to think you are. — Salma Hayek

It makes me laugh when she says she [Salma Hayek] got offered Selena, which was an outright lie. If that's what she does to get herself publicity than that's her thing. — Jennifer Lopez

I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do. — Salma Hayek

I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by. — Salma Hayek

I just love life. I'm excited about things in life. I think that if you're excited about life, you are excited about waking up and doing things with your life every day. — Salma Hayek

What once was an expression of who I was - acting - also became my hiding place. — Salma Hayek

my curse is that i fall in love with
men who believe in gods but not in me. — Salma Deera

Sometimes when we try to get outside of ourselves, to be like someone else, you miss out on so many beautiful things that you don't know that you are because you're looking at someone else. — Salma Hayek

It doesnt matter what you have faith in, just that you have faith. — Salma Hayek

My English was limited to vacationing and not really engaging with Americans. I knew 'shopping' and 'eating' English - I could say 'blue sweater,' 'creme brulee,' and 'Caesar salad,' - so I came here thinking I spoke English. — Salma Hayek

When I speak about freedom, it's about freedom of the spirit. Freedom of the spirit can't be represented by a body. It has to be art. It has to be all the colors. It has to be something that moves and has no boundaries. — Salma Hayek

My grandmother was energetic and fearless - a talented poet and songwriter. She was also interested in chemistry and history and medicine, taking care of the people in her hacienda in Mexico, delivering babies. She could have become anything, but this was the 1930s, and she was forced into an arranged marriage. — 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

Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress. — Salma Hayek

If I've been indulging in rich foods, a cleanse is a wonderful way to hit the reset button. — Salma Hayek

I noticed in the past, a lot of guys who like strong women, they really freak out if you're not strong 24/7. Or they complain about you being strong, then the moment you're not strong, they're like, 'Oh, no, no, no.' — Salma Hayek

I believe eating well, and with people you love, is about feeding your body, heart, and soul - I used juicing to ensure I covered my nutritional bases every day, and as a tool to restore inner balance if my body needed a break from too much indulgence. — Salma Hayek

My accent was horrible. In Mexico, nobody says, 'You speak English with a good accent.' You either speak English, or you don't: As long as you can communicate, no one cares. — Salma Hayek

You know how macho boys get when they're all together? Well, the set of 'Desperado' was like that. They were all trying to put me down, saying, 'Bring on the stuntwoman, Salma can't do that.' But I did everything. — Salma Hayek

I work hard, I make my own living and I love it. I like having financial independence. — Salma Hayek

It's more fun to play a good character with a good director and good actors around you. That's what makes it fun, and the more variety, the better. — Salma Hayek

If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group. — Salma Hayek

I'm concerned about my daughter because she will not believe in Santa Claus. No matter what I say to her, she just doesn't buy it, and she's 2. I refuse to give it up. I say, 'There is a Santa Claus,' and she says, 'Okay, Mommy. In pretend world, right?' She really doesn't believe. — Salma Hayek

I believe that change keeps you young. — 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

Being a mother is more exhausting than working, and sometimes I push myself too hard and burn myself out. I can appreciate how exhausting it must be for women who have to do everything themselves all the time. — Salma Hayek

You can be a thousand different women. It's your choice which one you want to be. It's about freedom and sovereignty. You celebrate who you are. You say, 'This is my kingdom.' — Salma Hayek

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

love is just a synonym for absinthe.
absinthe is a synonym for 'i don't
know what i'm doing anymore. — Salma Deera

Beauty products always cheer me up and give me hope. If it makes you feel pretty, why not? — Salma Hayek

I've never had anything done on my face. I've never had dermabrasion or peels or injections of any kind, nothing. — Salma Hayek

I'm saving my sick days for when I'm feeling better. — Salma Hayek

Everybody has a weakness. Mine is food. — Salma Hayek

When you are passionate about life, it keeps you young. Sometimes I wake up at 4:00 am just to see how my roses look. — Salma Hayek

In the first place, it's surreal to watch filming, to see the little ideas you had in your head and now Taylor Kitsch is doing it, or Salma Hayek. And then to see it loud and bright onscreen is a trip. — Don Winslow

They offered me that film before I did Frida and I said, no, I'm not capable of directing. Then after seeing Julie direct, I was inspired by it. She motivated me to do it, because we don't have role models as woman for directors. — Salma Hayek

I think art can take ordinary things and show them to you like it's the first time you've ever seen them. And you realize that even ordinary things aren't really ordinary at all" -Salma — Cynthia Lord

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'm a natural blonde. But when I started acting, I would go to auditions and they didn't know where to put me because I was voluptuous and had the accent, but I had blonde hair. It was ignorance: they thought every Latin person looks like Salma Hayek. — Sofia Vergara

I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody the greatness of women who didn't get to be all they could have been. Their dignity, their courage, and their brilliance make me strive to be better. They're a part of me. — Salma Hayek

Make yourself smell nice. I even wear perfume sometimes when I'm alone. — Salma Hayek

For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this character and I was so sad when the movie was over that when I got home and I tried to read the book I got really emotional and I started crying. — Salma Hayek

If you love food and you love red wine and they put you in France, you're in a good place and you're in a bad place at the same time. You have to weigh yourself every day, and you have to have an alarm number. When you get to that number, you have to start putting it in reverse. — Salma Hayek

Growing up with Jennifer Lopez and Salma Hayek - people who were always trying to do something else - I wanted to follow in their footsteps. They gave people a different perspective of how women were supposed to look like and be. — Paula Garces

I love being a wife and homemaker - because it's my choice. My husband doesn't expect me to do it. I don't mind doing things for him because he does so much for me; we both feel that way so there is no power struggle. — Salma Hayek

When I feel stressed, I turn to food for comfort, but I don't like to diet and I'm not good at it. — Salma Hayek

It's very easy to feel someone's pain when you love them. — Salma Hayek

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

My mother was devoted to helping people - with my father's money! - who had great voices but didn't have the financial means to study music. He and my mum gave away dozens of music scholarships, and my mum opened a school in town, introduced opera to children and created fantastic programmes. — Salma Hayek

Before I had my child, animals were my life. I slept with four dogs in my bed. — Salma Hayek

Your empathy for other mothers is such a natural instinct and it's such a beautiful thing that we all connect, and we should all help each other. — Salma Hayek

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

I don't ever want to have to depend on anyone completely. — Salma Hayek

I am so, so lucky. I am the luckiest girl in the world, really. And still with access to everything I could possibly want I still say 'Oh dear, what am I going to wear today?' There's no ending to that question! — Salma Hayek

Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories. — Salma Hayek

My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet. — Salma Hayek

I aim for a lifetime full of movies. — Salma Hayek

Every woman who thinks she is the only victim of violence has to know that there are many more. — Salma Hayek

If you're paralyzing your face in your 20s and 30s, you're not exercising the muscles that give it strength. My feeling is, laugh, cry, move your face. — Salma Hayek

Salma and I had run into each other once or twice at film festivals because I was doing the press for Real Women Have Curves at the same time she was doing the press for Frida. She had seen Real Women Have Curves, and when the idea of Ugly Betty came up, she thought of me. Her enthusiasm about the project was so infectious-she spoke of it with such expectation. Everyone that was involved was really excited about the project. I really wanted to be a part of it. — America Ferrera

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. — Salma Hayek

I have a ranch, which is my favorite place in the world. — Salma Hayek