Salma Hayek Quotes

I've stolen a couple of hearts and they are in my private collection!

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I have always been an active part of my community.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.

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.

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

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

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

Leave it to the Catholics to destroy existence.

I will not have Botox. You know why? Because I eat! I eat the fat, I eat the vegetable, I eat everything. If you exercise and you don't eat enough, it takes its toll on the skin.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I don’t have stamina in exercise...but I have it in life.

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

If it wasn't because of my high heels, I would still be in Coatzacoalcos with 10 children.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I was an illegal immigrant.

I grew up in Mexico, not the U.S., and the fact is that there just aren't any parts for Latin actresses. I have to persuade people that my accent won't be a problem, but an asset.

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

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.

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.'

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

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.

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.

I love to cook for my husband and daughter. I enjoy going to the market for fresh vegetables.

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.

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.