75+ Salma Hayek Quotes (Beautiful, Fun And Talented)

Salma Hayek is a Mexican actress, director and producer. She is best known for her roles in films such as Frida, Desperado and Dogma. She is also the founder of the production company Ventanarosa and has been nominated for an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards and four Golden Globe Awards.

Top 10 Salma Hayek Quotes

1. I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder.
2. Life is about creating new opportunities, not waiting for them to come to you.
3. 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.
4. This is not love. It is a crime... You can't look the other way just because you have not experienced domestic violence with your own flesh.
5. Every woman who thinks she is the only victim of violence has to know that there are many more.
6. People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you.
7. Life is about chasing after the things you think are truly worth it, even if they don't happen, I'd rather have nothing but know I didn't settle for something I didn't want!
8. 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.
9. You want to do movies that your children can watch, and that your children can have fun at and enjoy the experience of shooting.
10. My driving abilities from Mexico have helped me get through Hollywood.

Salma Hayek Short Quotes

• Life, I've got lots of friends. I don't complain.
• ...you have to understand that motherhood has to be your priority. It's important work.
• I aim for a lifetime full of movies.
• I think it's nice for women to try to be sexy for their man.
• I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.
• Try to figure out who you really are and not who you want other people to think you are.
• I was an illegal immigrant.
• I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that's what I love.
• Sometimes evolving doesn't mean transforming; sometimes it just means owning what is there.
• Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.

Salma Hayek Famous Quotes And Sayings

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

What worries me the most is that most men are so weak. Because of that they act like they don't care and like machos - because they are too fragile inside. They're scared of confrontation and afraid of so many things. — 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

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

People say we're all identical, but Jennifer Lopez is an American. She's from New York. She doesn't have an accent. Some of these Latin people - their Spanish is pathetic. They learned it when they became famous as Latinos. — 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 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. — Salma Hayek

I think I'm very good at adjusting to anything and to any situation, and if you are good at being in the moment and adjusting, you can actually have a clear vision of what to do with things or how to do things. — Salma Hayek

No surgical tweaks. No Botox either. I think it is terrible, these girls in their late 20s injecting their faces and lips. One told me, If I kill my muscles now, I'll never get wrinkles. Can you imagine? — 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

There is an Arabic writer who wrote philosophy and poetry and who brought all religions and all the world together. — Salma Hayek

Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process. — Salma Hayek

I don't care if you hate me or if you like me, as long as somebody gives me a character that is really a character to play. It's fun to be able to have a character and have a director that can direct you into a character. I'm just so happy that I got a good role. I don't care if it's bad or if it's good, and I don't care if it's drama or comedy. They are just so rare to come across. — Salma Hayek

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

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

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

I think if I was not in love, I would probably let myself go faster. Love gives me the vanity to continue. — Salma Hayek

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

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

I'm suspicious of people who talk about their feelings to the whole world — Salma Hayek

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

I have always been an active part of my community. — Salma Hayek

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

As a woman, you should be more at ease with your sexuality when you are in your 40s...You are more self-assured about that part. And that's the way it should be. — 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

When I finally decided to leave school and pursue acting, my parents didn't take it very lightly. My friends thought that it was the tackiest thing they'd ever heard of. Acting was really beneath them. They couldn't believe that I would want to become an actress. Not now, of course. — Salma Hayek

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

When I'm doing a movie, that's when I relax. As stressful as it can be, as much pressure as it should be, making movies is still the place where I feel the most at ease and I truly enjoy it. That's why I make so many. — Salma Hayek

I think today that's a very big problem because of the world we live in and the social media and everything... everybody is obsessed with their own identity, but seen through other people. — Salma Hayek

It breaks my heart because there are some parts I know I would have the right spirit for, and I just don't get them because I have an accent. — Salma Hayek

I like to eat. I'm always on the edge of how much can I eat without looking too - you know. If I eat something salty, it makes me want something sweet. I eat something sweet, then I want salty. And exercise is not my thing, though I do it. — Salma Hayek

When I started acting, I was told over and over again, 'You're no good.' But I said to myself, 'You've got to keep it up.' — Salma Hayek

There were many times when I had to emotionally come to terms with the fact that maybe I wasn't ever going to get married. And I started getting comfortable with that. — Salma Hayek

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

I might not be famous one day. But I'd still be happy. — Salma Hayek

I don't think we are the same, women and men. We're different. But I don't think we are less than men. There are more women than men in the world - ask any single woman! So, it is shocking that men are in more positions of power. — Salma Hayek

~When Valentina was not even 1 month old, my aunt [gave me the best advice]: 'Put her to sleep yourself every night. Sing to her and cradle her in your arms and sit by her side - every night. Because one day you won't be able to, and it's going to happen really fast.~ — Salma Hayek

I always look forward to seeing a man who has more brains than me. — Salma Hayek

At one point in my life, I was very involved with social causes. I'm still involved, but now I have a family and it's important to me. — Salma Hayek

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

I like being a mother. For some people, it's so much work that it can be a burden. But it's not for me, maybe because I had my daughter, Valentina, later on in life, at 41. — 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

What works in a relationship of very public people is not making the relationship public - keeping it as personal as it can be. It's the only way it is real. — Salma Hayek

Sometimes I decide not to make something because I am proud and think I am better than that - and then I realise I have to pay the rent and I have to take something which is even worse than all the other stuff they offer you because you were being so proud not to take it! But you adjust and sometimes for one reason or another there is no strategy at the end but there is the ability to do the best that you can with what you have. — Salma Hayek

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

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

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

I've never met anybody who enjoys every moment of making a movie as much as Pierce Brosnan. He doesn't stress out too much, he is always in a good mood. And he has little rituals throughout the day, which he does with a lot of style - almost like he is celebrating life, not just the work. He has to have his special cup of tea, in nice china, not Styrofoam. — Salma Hayek

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

There's a lot about the character. It doesn't always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them. — 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

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

Life Lessons by Salma Hayek

1. Salma Hayek is a great example of the power of hard work, dedication, and resilience. She has worked hard to become one of the most successful Mexican actresses in Hollywood, and her story is a great reminder that anything is possible with enough determination and passion.
2. Salma Hayek has also shown that it is possible to break through barriers and stereotypes, and has been an advocate for women's rights and representation in the media.
3. She has also shown that it is possible to use your platform to bring attention to important causes, and has been an outspoken supporter of various charities and social causes.