Top 140 Salma Hayek Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Life is about creating new opportunities, not waiting for them to come to you.”

— Salma Hayek

2. “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

3. “I was an illegal immigrant.”

— Salma Hayek

4. “Life is about chasing after the things you think are truly worth it, even if they don’t happen, I’d rather have nothing but know I didn’t settle for something I didn’t want!”

— Salma Hayek

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

— Salma Hayek

6. “Life is tough; and if you have the ability to laugh at it, you have the ability to enjoy it.”

— Salma Hayek

7. “I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder.”

— Salma Hayek

8. “I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.”

— Salma Hayek

9. “I have tried my whole life to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride.”

— Salma Hayek

10. “Beauty products always cheer me up and give me hope. If it makes you feel pretty, why not?”

— Salma Hayek

11. “I believe that change keeps you young.”

— Salma Hayek

12. “I don’t ever want to have to depend on anyone completely.”

— Salma Hayek

13. “In fighting for women, we fight for humanity. We fight for the future – for everyone.”

— Salma Hayek

14. “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

15. “Make yourself smell nice. I even wear perfume sometimes when I’m alone.”

— Salma Hayek

16. “I just love life. I’m excited about things in life. I think that if you’re excited about life, you are excited about waking up and doing things with your life every day.”

— Salma Hayek

17. “I think I’m very good at adjusting to anything and to any situation, and if you are good at being in the moment and adjusting, you can actually have a clear vision of what to do with things or how to do things.”

— Salma Hayek

18. “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

19. “I’m saving my sick days for when I’m feeling better.”

— Salma Hayek

20. “I am so, so lucky. I am the luckiest girl in the world, really. And still with access to everything I could possibly want I still say ‘Oh dear, what am I going to wear today?’ There’s no ending to that question!”

— Salma Hayek

21. “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

22. “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

23. “Art and activism seem to go together naturally, the idea being that if you’re an entertainer, you can have a voice, and if you have a voice, you can make a difference. But if I were not an actress, I would still try to extend myself beyond my little micro-universe of my job, family and personal joy.”

— Salma Hayek

24. “Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.”

— Salma Hayek

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

— Salma Hayek

26. “You can have a spiritual awakening and discover a new side of you at any age. And best of all, love can happen at any age. Life can just start to get exciting when you’re in your 40s and 50s. You have to believe that.”

— Salma Hayek

27. “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

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28. “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

29. “Try to figure out who you really are and not who you want other people to think you are.”

— Salma Hayek

30. “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.”

— Salma Hayek

31. “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.”

— Salma Hayek

32. “Everybody has a weakness. Mine is food.”

— Salma Hayek

33. “My English was limited to vacationing and not really engaging with Americans. I knew ‘shopping’ and ‘eating’ English – I could say ‘blue sweater,’ ‘creme brulee,’ and ‘Caesar salad,’ – so I came here thinking I spoke English.”

— Salma Hayek

34. “People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you.”

— Salma Hayek

35. “A mother is willing and capable of doing anything for her children. You can justify it if you do something for your children, especially as a Mexican mother. I don’t know about some other nationalities, but the Mexican mothers are like that. They will do anything for their children.”

— Salma Hayek

36. “People say we’re all identical, but Jennifer Lopez is an American. She’s from New York. She doesn’t have an accent. Some of these Latin people – their Spanish is pathetic. They learned it when they became famous as Latinos.”

— Salma Hayek

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

— Salma Hayek

38. “It’s very easy to feel someone’s pain when you love them.”

— Salma Hayek

39. “I don’t think we are the same, women and men. We’re different. But I don’t think we are less than men. There are more women than men in the world – ask any single woman! So, it is shocking that men are in more positions of power.”

— Salma Hayek

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

— Salma Hayek

41. “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

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

— Salma Hayek

43. “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

44. “There is an Arabic writer who wrote philosophy and poetry and who brought all religions and all the world together.”

— Salma Hayek

45. “Don’t try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.”

— Salma Hayek

46. “Being a mother is more exhausting than working, and sometimes I push myself too hard and burn myself out. I can appreciate how exhausting it must be for women who have to do everything themselves all the time.”

— Salma Hayek

47. “If you love food and you love red wine and they put you in France, you’re in a good place and you’re in a bad place at the same time. You have to weigh yourself every day, and you have to have an alarm number. When you get to that number, you have to start putting it in reverse.”

— Salma Hayek

48. “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

49. “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

50. “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