Salma Hayek Quotes

If you're feeling blue, lock yourself in a room, stand in front of a mirror, and dance - and laugh at yourself and be sexy. Dance the silliest and ugliest you've ever danced. Make fun of yourself and try to recover your sense of humor.

~ Salma Hayek

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

~ 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

I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.

~ Salma Hayek

I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.

~ Salma Hayek

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

~ 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

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

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

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

If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.

~ 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

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.

~ Salma Hayek

I don't believe in the so-called Latino explosion when it comes to movies. Jennifer Lopez doesn't have an accent. She grew up in New York speaking English, not Spanish. Her success is very important because she represents a different culture, but it doesn't help me.

~ Salma Hayek

I love family films. Of course, as a mother who has to watch so many movies, you really appreciate it when somebody makes a film that is for everybody - family entertainment that's really for the family, where everyone has a good time.

~ 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 didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children.

~ Salma Hayek

Botox, trust me I've been tempted - but I resist! Think about what happens to your muscles - and your skin - if you're sick and don't move for a few days. It all atrophies! Plus, if you freeze a muscle in your face, other muscles have to compensate! And once you stop, what does that look like?

~ Salma Hayek

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.

~ 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 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

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

~ Salma Hayek