Salma Hayek Quotes

Salma Hayek (40)

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

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Births

• 1959 - Nicole Brown Simpson
• 1979 - Berenice Marlohe
• 1762 - Johann Gottlieb Fichte
• 1931 - David Wilkerson
• 1926 - Swami Kriyananda

Deaths

• 1989 - C. L. R. James
• 1864 - Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 1935 - T. E. Lawrence
• 1969 - Coleman Hawkins
• 2012 - Warren Rudman

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women, Competition

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

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• People often say that ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder,’ and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.

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  Tags in People

• I’m good at working, but I’m very good at playing.

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  Tags in Good

• I aim for a lifetime full of movies.

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  Topics in Movies

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

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• My heart has been stolen too – but I’ve gone and got it back every single time!

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  Tags in Heart

• 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.

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  Topics in America

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

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  Tags in Directed, Movie

• 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.

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

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  Tags in Women

• 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.

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  Tags in Film

• 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.

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

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

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  Tags in Accent

• I have a farm and I love it there. There’s really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.

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  Topics in Love

• 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.

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  Topics in Love

  Tags in Listening

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Someone, Think

• No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Abuse, Woman

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reason