Top 140 Salma Hayek Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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.”

— Salma Hayek

102. “I’m a country girl. I have to be in nature, so my daughter is exposed to it a lot.”

— Salma Hayek

103. “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.”

— Salma Hayek

104. “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

105. “Leave it to the Catholics to destroy existence.”

— Salma Hayek

106. “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

107. “How I would describe my characters is absolutely different from how I would describe myself.”

— Salma Hayek

108. “Somehow I am really relaxed within the chaos of having a baby – and anyone who’s a mother knows it’s very hard to relax, because there is so much to do and worry about!”

— Salma Hayek

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

— Salma Hayek

110. “At one point in my life, I was very involved with social causes. I’m still involved, but now I have a family and it’s important to me.”

— Salma Hayek

111. “There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.”

— Salma Hayek

112. “I’m concerned about my daughter because she will not believe in Santa Claus. No matter what I say to her, she just doesn’t buy it, and she’s 2. I refuse to give it up. I say, ‘There is a Santa Claus,’ and she says, ‘Okay, Mommy. In pretend world, right?’ She really doesn’t believe.”

— Salma Hayek

113. “When I’m doing a movie, that’s when I relax. As stressful as it can be, as much pressure as it should be, making movies is still the place where I feel the most at ease and I truly enjoy it. That’s why I make so many.”

— Salma Hayek

114. “There’s a lot about the character. It doesn’t always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them.”

— Salma Hayek

115. “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

116. “Do I envy Madonna’s body? Yes. Do I thank God that she has it? Yes! If you’re fifty-something and you look like Madonna, and you put a lifetime’s work in the way you look, then flash it to the world!”

— Salma Hayek

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

— Salma Hayek

118. “Your empathy for other mothers is such a natural instinct and it’s such a beautiful thing that we all connect, and we should all help each other.”

— Salma Hayek

119. “There were many times when I had to emotionally come to terms with the fact that maybe I wasn’t ever going to get married. And I started getting comfortable with that.”

— Salma Hayek

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

— Salma Hayek

121. “I’m good at working, but I’m very good at playing.”

— Salma Hayek

122. “There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.”

— Salma Hayek

123. “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

124. “I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that’s what I love.”

— Salma Hayek

125. “If I’ve been indulging in rich foods, a cleanse is a wonderful way to hit the reset button.”

— Salma Hayek

126. “I directed a movie and now, I’m going to do the editing.”

— Salma Hayek

127. “I’ve stolen a couple of hearts and they are in my private collection!”

— Salma Hayek

128. “I have one friend that I’ve had since I was born, and she’s from Coatzacoalcos. She’s not really impressed or interested in the actor’s life. My family isn’t really either.”

— Salma Hayek

129. “Life, I’ve got lots of friends. I don’t complain.”

— Salma Hayek

130. “It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you’ve been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.”

— Salma Hayek

131. “Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone’s attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.”

— Salma Hayek

132. “I have always been an active part of my community.”

— Salma Hayek

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

— Salma Hayek

134. “So you have to keep waiting and then they give you the script and it’s terrible. Then you have to go to the rewrite and they’re very upset because you didn’t like it. I went through that for seven years.”

— Salma Hayek

135. “What once was an expression of who I was – acting – also became my hiding place.”

— Salma Hayek

136. “I want to work for a long, long time and keep growing in my work, and if I am very lucky and very blessed, maybe somewhere along the line there will be one movie in there that becomes a classic.”

— Salma Hayek

137. “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.”

— Salma Hayek

138. “I think being able to be malleable is a great weapon and I’m a very, very good strategist. I create the most amazing strategies in my head and I have created the most extraordinary strategies in my head for my career...”

— Salma Hayek

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

— Salma Hayek

140. “I might not be famous one day. But I’d still be happy.”

— Salma Hayek

141. “It breaks my heart because there are some parts I know I would have the right spirit for, and I just don’t get them because I have an accent.”

— Salma Hayek

142. “I think if I was not in love, I would probably let myself go faster. Love gives me the vanity to continue.”

— Salma Hayek

143. “My mother was devoted to helping people – with my father’s money! – who had great voices but didn’t have the financial means to study music. He and my mum gave away dozens of music scholarships, and my mum opened a school in town, introduced opera to children and created fantastic programmes.”

— Salma Hayek

144. “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

145. “When I first came to Hollywood I was told to go out with an agent because it was good for my career. So I went to a party with him because it was good for my ‘career.’ Well, he thought the whole thing was a big date. Needless to say, I was very upset.”

— Salma Hayek

146. “It’s more fun to play a good character with a good director and good actors around you. That’s what makes it fun, and the more variety, the better.”

— Salma Hayek