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Quotes from O interview — Salma Hayek

born 1966 Mexico

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10 quotes

Your children may not listen to you — so you also have to be brave enough to respect their dreams.

O interview (2003)

It's good to be sexy, but when that's all they can see — no.

O interview (2003)

I wanted to have a voice, and it was okay if I wasn't going to be so famous or so rich.

O interview (2003)

I don't believe you really have to be any of those things. You simply have to be who you are.

O interview (2003)

Everyone said how tormented directors can be. I've never enjoyed something so much in my life!

O interview (2003)

I've learned from others' lives... What works in a relationship of very public people is not making the relationship public — keeping it as personal as it can be.

O interview (2003)

I came here and realized how truly limited my English was, and it was very scary. I soon realized it wasn't going to be hard to learn — it was going to be nearly impossible.

O interview (2003)

The difference is very easy to understand. If you enjoy the process, it's your dream. … If you are enduring the process, just desperate for the result, it's somebody else's dream.

O interview (2003)

I want to do one movie that if I die the next day, I know I left one thing in this world that I was very proud of, that other people can see, that meant something to me, that had my voice.

O interview (2003)

I didn't stop dreaming until I finished the film. But the dream was the movie, not the Oscar.

O interview (2003)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Salma Hayek (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.