Quotes By Salma Hayek

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.'

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

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.

I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that's what I love.

I've stolen a couple of hearts and they are in my private collection!

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.

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.

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

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

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

I think it's nice for women to try to be sexy for their man.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I'm good at working, but I'm very good at playing.

I've never had anything done on my face. I've never had dermabrasion or peels or injections of any kind, nothing.

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

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.

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.