Salma Hayek Quotes

I want to be around for a long time. I don't want to be a one-hit wonder.

It just proves that I've been here for a long time and, I guess, have done the right things over the years.

I do feel grateful, and I love what I'm doing, and I'm happy, and I'm living in the moment, but I also have my eye on the long game and the big prize, and that is just to make this a life-long career. To make a big enough impact on everybody to stick around for a long time.

I want to keep working hard and looking to progress.

I must be doing something right. I've been around for a long time.

I've got a lot that I want to do, so I would like to expand my empire, for sure. I love it.

Shirley Maclaine once said that she didn't want to be a big star, just a long star. That's what I want too.

I am hoping for a long career.

You start at SNL when you're young and hungry, but I don't want my pro years to be my SNL years.

People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.

I'm very ambitious when it comes to cameos.

I didn't have any fixed goals when I joined the film industry. I don't particularly feel 'successful,' but I am grateful that my career is going well.

You're always working to try and climb that ladder.

I'm just trying to do big things with my career all the time.

If you look at my career, it's been nothing but consistency.

I know where I wanna end up. I'm ready to go, and I'm ready to learn. I'm ready to build, and I'm ready to establish my longevity.

I've been going to school, did theater for a long time, been plugging away for 10, 15 years. I was told earlier in my career, it's all laying track... one day, all that track is going to come together in some way, and it has.

I want to learn how to play an instrument. I want to break a world record. I'm just a very determined, motivated type of person.

For a very long time, I wasn't thought of as anyone with any credibility in the film world. Everybody is tramping through the swamp every day in this business. 'I'm worth it, I'm credible - believe me, give me a shot!' That's the way I feel on a consistent basis.

Now I'm this far up the ladder and I've got so much farther to go with what I want to achieve with it.

When you've accomplished a certain amount in your career, you're not so focused on your ambitions.

I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame.

I just want to make a name for myself and get to the next level.

I had set a goal of being a producer by 25.

Success for me means being able to work. I don't look at so much at what I've done as much as I look to what I will do.