Salma Hayek Quotes

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

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.

Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I believe that change keeps you young.

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.

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.

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.

Everybody has a weakness. Mine is food.

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

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.

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.

I might not be famous one day. But I'd still be happy.

I've never met anybody who enjoys every moment of making a movie as much as Pierce Brosnan. He doesn't stress out too much, he is always in a good mood. And he has little rituals throughout the day, which he does with a lot of style - almost like he is celebrating life, not just the work. He has to have his special cup of tea, in nice china, not Styrofoam.