Salma Hayek Quotes

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

  Salma Hayek

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women – that somewhere along the line they’ll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen.

  Salma Hayek

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• 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

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• Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven. Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women – that somewhere along the line they’ll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen.

  Salma Hayek

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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 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

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• 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

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

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• 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

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

  Salma Hayek

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• 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.

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• I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.

  Salma Hayek

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Salma Hayek (40)

Birth:	2nd September, 1966
Nationality:	Mexican
Profession:	Actress, Director, Producer

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