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"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."
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"My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it."
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"I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting."
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"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."
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"Acting is happy agony."
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"Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better."
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"But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with."
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"Acting is easier than skating in a way and harder in other aspects. In skating, you get one chance, and with acting you get to do it over and over."
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"Well, acting was just in me and I tried to avoid it. I didn't want to do what my parents did, you know?"
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"I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like."
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Explore more quotes by Salma Hayek

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

"And I highly recommend for all the women in the world, even if they're 71, you can never take for granted that he loves you. It's always good to flirt with him. It's a great sport."
Woman

"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."
Home

"Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven."
Acting

"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."
Character

"There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival."
Film

"No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone."
Woman

"I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her."
Experience

"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."
History

"I aim for a lifetime full of movies."
Movies
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