Salma Hayek Quotes
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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.
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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.
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I am so, so lucky. I am the luckiest girl in the world, really. And still with access to everything I could possibly want I still say 'Oh dear, what am I going to wear today?' There's no ending to that question!
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Everyone said how tormented directors can be. I've never enjoyed something so much in my life!
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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.
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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.
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No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.
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I do have thighs and a butt. I have cellulite.
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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.
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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.
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I've never had anything done on my face. I've never had dermabrasion or peels or injections of any kind, nothing.
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I received so many hate letters when I breast-fed a starving baby in Africa. I was in Sierra Leone in 2009 and I was weaning my child at that time - she was not there with me. There was a hungry baby who was crying because his mother had no milk, and I thought, 'Why throw away my milk if I can give it to a baby who needs it?'
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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.
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I'm a country girl. I have to be in nature, so my daughter is exposed to it a lot.
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I think it's nice for women to try to be sexy for their man.
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I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.
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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.
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I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.
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When I feel stressed, I turn to food for comfort, but I don't like to diet and I'm not good at it.
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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.
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I love to cook for my husband and daughter. I enjoy going to the market for fresh vegetables.
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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.
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I have a ranch, which is my favorite place in the world.
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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.