Salma Hayek quotes

I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder.
-- Salma Hayek

#Realizing #Beholder #Liberating

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

#Art #Moving #Color

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

#Inspirational #Beauty #Love Yourself

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

#Fun #Drama #Hate

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

#Feelings #Obsessed #Extraordinary

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

#Baby #Grandmother #Medicine

I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.
-- Salma Hayek

#Men #Waiting #Balls

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

#Inspirational #Success #New Year

I have tried my whole life to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride.
-- Salma Hayek

#Pride #Roots #Mexican

~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

#Sleep #Parenting #Night

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

#Strength #Believe #Important

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

#Nice #Work Out #Bad Mood

I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.
-- Salma Hayek

#Mexican #Directors #Hollywood

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

#Beautiful #Stupid #Silly

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

#Men #Worry #Heartless

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

#Weakness

Sometimes evolving doesn't mean transforming; sometimes it just means owning what is there.
-- Salma Hayek

#Mean #Sometimes #Evolve

Life is about creating new opportunities, not waiting for them to come to you.
-- Salma Hayek

#Opportunity #Creating #Waiting

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

#Abuse #Domestic Violence #Victim

Life is tough; and if you have the ability to laugh at it, you have the ability to enjoy it.
-- Salma Hayek

#Laughter #Humor #Laughing

Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.
-- Salma Hayek

#Writing #Heaven #Acting

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

#Birthday #Believe #Age

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

#Catholic #Existence

I love being a wife and homemaker - because it's my choice. My husband doesn't expect me to do it. I don't mind doing things for him because he does so much for me; we both feel that way so there is no power struggle.
-- Salma Hayek

#Husband #Struggle #Wife

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

#Children #Thinking #Married

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

#Fighting #Humanity

Beauty products always cheer me up and give me hope. If it makes you feel pretty, why not?
-- Salma Hayek

#Cheer #Giving #Why Not

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.
-- Salma Hayek

#Domestic Violence #Abuse #Flesh

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

#Pain #Easy #Feels

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

#Thinking #Violence #Victim

...you have to understand that motherhood has to be your priority. It's important work.
-- Salma Hayek

#Mom #Motherhood #Priorities

You can be a thousand different women. It's your choice which one you want to be. It's about freedom and sovereignty. You celebrate who you are. You say, 'This is my kingdom.'
-- Salma Hayek

#Choices #Different #Want