Salma Hayek
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In 1991 Hayek moved to Hollywood and came to prominence with roles in Hollywood movies such as Desperado (film)/Desperado (1995), Dogma (film)/Dogma (1999), and Wild Wild West (1999).

Her breakthrough role was in the 2002 film Frida as Mexican painter Frida Kahlo for which she was nominated in the category of Best Actress for an Academy Award for Best Actress/Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama/Golden Globe Award. This movie received widespread attention and was a critical and commercial success. She won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing in a Children/Youth/Family Special in 2004 for The Maldonado Miracle and received an Emmy Award nomination for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series/Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series in 2007 after guest-starring in the American Broadcasting Company/ABC television comedy-drama Ugly Betty. She also guest-starred on the NBC comedy series 30 Rock from 2009 to 2013.

Hayek's recent films include Grown Ups (film)/Grown Ups (2010), Grown Ups 2 (2013), and Puss in Boots (2011 film)/Puss in Boots (2011).

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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.

My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time!

I've stolen a couple of hearts and they are in my private collection!

I have gotten a lot more attention than...other women that I find incredibly beautiful. And this has happened to me ever since I was a girl, when I was flat, had no teeth, was skinny and small as I could be. I always got more attention than anyone else. If I hadn't, I would have made sure I did.

Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.

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.

The biggest thing [Frida] brought into my life was this peacefulness. I still get passionate about things, but my passion is not so scattered and it's not needy. It's a lot more powerful because it comes with this groundedness and peacefulness. That it's about the process, not about the results.

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.

When I first came to Hollywood I was told to go out with an agent because it was good for my career. So I went to a party with him because it was good for my 'career.' Well, he thought the whole thing was a big date. Needless to say, I was very upset.

My driving abilities from Mexico have helped me get through Hollywood.

It's very easy to feel someone's pain when you love them.

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.