Top 140 Salma Hayek Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “The thought of somebody pulling and cutting around my face gives me stomach ache. Plastic surgery would be so painful. What if it doesn’t look good? What if they made a mistake? I couldn’t do it.”

— Salma Hayek

52. “I’m not a skinny girl. I push it. I’m at the limit of chubbiness at all times, but I’m happy at all times.”

— Salma Hayek

53. “I don’t want to be size zero and I’m glad I’m not.”

— Salma Hayek

54. “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

55. “I will not have Botox. You know why? Because I eat! I eat the fat, I eat the vegetable, I eat everything. If you exercise and you don’t eat enough, it takes its toll on the skin.”

— Salma Hayek

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

— Salma Hayek

57. “I want my little girl to tell me who she is so I can encourage her and not impose my desires for her on her life. I want her to dream big and to know that if she is willing to earn it, she can have anything – and become anything.”

— Salma Hayek

58. “If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.”

— Salma Hayek

59. “You want to do movies that your children can watch, and that your children can have fun at and enjoy the experience of shooting.”

— Salma Hayek

60. “I can learn my lines fine. It’s just reading them in the first place that is the problem.”

— Salma Hayek

61. “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

62. “When I finally decided to leave school and pursue acting, my parents didn’t take it very lightly. My friends thought that it was the tackiest thing they’d ever heard of. Acting was really beneath them. They couldn’t believe that I would want to become an actress. Not now, of course.”

— Salma Hayek

63. “I think if you are young and you have children, you still have so much to prove. When you have children later in life, you lose a bit of that urge for working.”

— Salma Hayek

64. “I have a ranch, which is my favorite place in the world.”

— Salma Hayek

65. “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

66. “What you need is one black dress I call Plan B. It doesn’t have to be fabulous, it just looks good, covers up the problems and is neutral enough for dinner, business, a date, a funeral. You don’t overwear it, you don’t overwash it, because the Plan B is – gold.”

— Salma Hayek

67. “I think that it’s important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don’t let a year go by knowing you didn’t make an effort to do something – no matter how small – outside your own problems and drama.”

— Salma Hayek

68. “Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn’t exist. We were not part of any stories.”

— Salma Hayek

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

— Salma Hayek

70. “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

71. “I’m suspicious of people who talk about their feelings to the whole world.”

— Salma Hayek

72. “When you are passionate about life, it keeps you young. Sometimes I wake up at 4:00 am just to see how my roses look.”

— Salma Hayek

73. “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

74. “I like being a mother. For some people, it’s so much work that it can be a burden. But it’s not for me, maybe because I had my daughter, Valentina, later on in life, at 41.”

— Salma Hayek

75. “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

76. “Find your own style. Don’t spend your savings trying to be someone else. You’re not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.”

— Salma Hayek

77. “When I started acting, I was told over and over again, ‘You’re no good.’ But I said to myself, ‘You’ve got to keep it up.’”

— Salma Hayek

78. “Sometimes evolving doesn’t mean transforming; sometimes it just means owning what is there.”

— Salma Hayek

79. “No surgical tweaks. No Botox either. I think it is terrible, these girls in their late 20s injecting their faces and lips. One told me, If I kill my muscles now, I’ll never get wrinkles. Can you imagine?”

— Salma Hayek

80. “They thought I was crazy in Mexico when I said, ‘I’m going to Hollywood.’ Nobody thought I could make it.”

— Salma Hayek

81. “It doesnt matter what you have faith in, just that you have faith.”

— Salma Hayek

82. “I like to eat. I’m always on the edge of how much can I eat without looking too – you know. If I eat something salty, it makes me want something sweet. I eat something sweet, then I want salty. And exercise is not my thing, though I do it.”

— Salma Hayek

83. “Before I had my child, animals were my life. I slept with four dogs in my bed.”

— Salma Hayek

84. “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

85. “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

86. “Every unwanted animal ends up on my farm: alpacas and horses and dogs and cats and chickens and ducks and parrots and fish and guinea pigs.”

— Salma Hayek

87. “What works in a relationship of very public people is not making the relationship public – keeping it as personal as it can be. It’s the only way it is real.”

— Salma Hayek

88. “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

89. “I believe eating well, and with people you love, is about feeding your body, heart, and soul – I used juicing to ensure I covered my nutritional bases every day, and as a tool to restore inner balance if my body needed a break from too much indulgence.”

— Salma Hayek

90. “You know Latin people? African-American people? How our skin ages more slowly? Even though we’re dramatic, we move our faces, we eat higher-fat foods, we’re the ones with fewer wrinkles – it makes you wonder.”

— Salma Hayek

91. “I’ve never had anything done on my face. I’ve never had dermabrasion or peels or injections of any kind, nothing.”

— Salma Hayek

92. “The truth is, I just don’t have the drive to be the prettiest and the thinnest. I can be happy for other people for their beauty.”

— Salma Hayek

93. “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

94. “I said, ‘I’m going to the United States to study with Stella Adler and do movies because nobody here has done it and my passion is films.’ But I came here and I didn’t speak English, I didn’t have a green card, I didn’t know I had to have an agent, I couldn’t drive, I was dyslexic.”

— Salma Hayek

95. “I think it’s nice for women to try to be sexy for their man.”

— Salma Hayek

96. “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

97. “I think that a lot of women that know they’re going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.”

— Salma Hayek

98. “I aim for a lifetime full of movies.”

— Salma Hayek

99. “My driving abilities from Mexico have helped me get through Hollywood.”

— Salma Hayek

100. “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.”

— Salma Hayek