Salma Hayek Quotes

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.'

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• I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.

  

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• Karaoke is something that's near and dear and very close to my heart. I was a karaoke host when I was working my way through university. I was a full-time student and karaoke was my night job.

  

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• You begin to realize that the genius of our country is the constant push to be more inclusive and find new ways of engaging everyone.

  

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• We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.

  

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• I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.

  

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• Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.

  

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• Salesmen always need something to sell.

  

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• Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

  

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• What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

  

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• I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.

  

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• I just thought any workout that is effective and I can do while laying down I'm signing up for.

  

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• I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.

  

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• I would like for people to hear my music and hear/realize that people and experiences are deeper than what's at face value. Hopefully, with the span of my career, I can try to convey that in more ways than one.

  

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• Faith is personal if it's to be real.

  

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• A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

  

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• You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.

  

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• My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.

  

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• America can enjoy a vital, fully functioning government, with all the benefits provided by Texas, while reducing Texas at the same time.

  

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• What I loved about myself as a teenager is that I didn't know any better to be afraid or to be insecure.

  

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• You feel the music needs something but you don't know what. So you start searching, fitting, measuring, trying. Every time you try another angle. And sometimes that's frustrating, especially if you don't come up with something for three days.

  

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• To do good, you actually have to do something.

  

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• Yes, honey...Just squeeze your rage up into a bitter little ball and release it at an appropriate time, like that day I hit the referee with the whiskey bottle.

  

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• 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
  • Up
  • Good
  • Myself