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Film actress

Salma Hayek is a Mexican actress, director, producer, and activist, born on September 2, 1966. She is renowned for her exceptional performances in films such as 'Frida' and 'The Love Letter'. Hayek is celebrated for her contributions to gender equality and Latin American culture.

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“People say we're all identical, but Jennifer Lopez is an American. She's from New York. She doesn't have an accent. Some of these Latin people - their Spanish is pathetic. They learned it when they became famous as Latinos.”

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“I'm a bit of an abstract figure that people can project their fantasies on; it's pretty much what we all are, otherwise we wouldn't be stars, and people wouldn't be interested. But people project things on you that have nothing to do with what you really are, or they see a little something and then exaggerate it. And you can't really control that.”

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“People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.”

“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.”

Source: The Juice Generation: 100 Recipes for Fresh Juices and Superfood Smoothies

“I grew up in Mexico, not the U.S., and the fact is that there just aren't any parts for Latin actresses. I have to persuade people that my accent won't be a problem, but an asset.”

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“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.”

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“My mother was devoted to helping people - with my father's money! - who had great voices but didn't have the financial means to study music. He and my mum gave away dozens of music scholarships, and my mum opened a school in town, introduced opera to children and created fantastic programmes.”

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“You know Latin people? African-American people? How our skin ages more slowly? Even though we're dramatic, we move our faces, we eat higher-fat foods, we're the ones with fewer wrinkles - it makes you wonder.”

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“I think today that's a very big problem because of the world we live in and the social media and everything... everybody is obsessed with their own identity, but seen through other people.”

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“Try to figure out who you really are and not who you want other people to think you are.”

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“People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you.”

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“If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.”

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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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“What works in a relationship of very public people is not making the relationship public - keeping it as personal as it can be. It's the only way it is real.”

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“I like being a mother. For some people, it's so much work that it can be a burden. But it's not for me, maybe because I had my daughter, Valentina, later on in life, at 41.”

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“I'm suspicious of people who talk about their feelings to the whole world”

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“Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.”

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About the Author

Born: September 2, 1966
Known for: Film actress
Quotes: 165

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