Salma Hayek Quotes

I would like to think that I'm more different from my character than I am.

I like to play the guy that has no self-awareness.

Whenever I see a mirror, I just look at myself, or when I see my own reflection, I quickly take a look; I won't lie about that. But when I am in front of the camera, it's just the character, not me.

I don't really know what my personality is anyway. I don't really have one.

At the beginning of 'The Hills,' I couldn't watch myself because I'm very critical and would pick myself to pieces. But with movies I feel like it's different because you're playing a character. So it's like watching yourself but not watching yourself.

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body.

Like, that was weird in 'Hamlet 2,' because I played myself there, fully myself, but then I realized, 'Oh, I'm not playing myself. I'm some weird version of myself.' So as an actress, you're always playing something, I don't even know who I am, how could I become me? I don't know what that is.

With acting, I've got a character to inhabit. You've got to think about your intentions and your directions. In modeling, even though there's an act to it, a good model is a good model. For me it's uncomfortable territory. You start to feel quite insecure about yourself. There's nothing between you and the camera, and it's just you.

I have this idea of myself as this quiet, observant, thoughtful child, which my parents roundly contradict. They claim that I was loud and bossy and dancing all the time.

I'm a nut, but not just a nut.

All the nice things about Suzanne are me. All the things that aren't nice, that was just the writing.

I don't look at my work in a critical or analytical way; I just don't think of myself objectively. It doesn't interest me.

I avoid seeing myself while I'm working on role so I won't see "me."

I'm a jerk, that's who I am. I'm like everybody else.

I've played myself before this ["Brent Spiner"] - and I've played myself since, for that matter - and playing yourself one of the most difficult characters you can play, 'cause God knows most of us don't know who that is.

Please don't mistake who I am for who the character is.

It is a fact that you project what you are.

The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.

Perhaps a child, like a cat, is so much inside of himself that he does not see himself in the mirror.

The treatment you permit reveals the portrait you have of yourself.

Not if I know myself at all.

In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference.

Reputation is what others perceive you as being, and their opinion may be right or wrong. Character, however, is what you really are, and nobody truly knows that but you. But you are what matters most.

A person's self-concept is the core of his personality.