Salma Hayek Quotes

It's always fun to play characters that are different from me.

I consider it an actor going to work with other actors. It's not a competitive sport, it's not to outact anybody else, sorta thing, you can be a bad actor but you don't outact anybody, you just bring your character as best as you can.

One of the things I love, more than anything, is jumping around and playing lots of different parts. I love the variety of playing different characters.

For me as an actor, it's really fun to play someone who's not human.

It was really fun and intimate in a way. Working with George Miller is exquisite. Gloria is different from anything I've ever played before. The first time I saw the characters in the studio I remember thinking that Mumble looked just like Elijah, with such a cute and endearing face. I don't think Gloria looks that much like me.

When it's all said and done, I'm very, very glad to work in this business, but that's exactly what it is. It's a business, and I get to do the fun half of it. I get paid to pretend. I get to play really great characters. And, we have such a wonderful writer. She just knows people so intricately, and it's so fun to be able to act out her words.

With acting, it's like you form chemistry with different people in different ways, so it's really added even more fun to work, you know?

I totally love to act. I don't care if it's a musical, a comedy. I just like to work and interact with other people.

The terrible thing about being an actor is that it's not a solo occupation.

Its super to play with Martina, and she has huge amounts of talent. We have a lot of fun.

I love the process of working on a play. I love rehearsal so much. New York can be so tough, but the community in the theater is so warm and glorious.

I'm inspired to work with good actors, period. I want to work with the best anytime because I think they'll make me better.

It was so much fun to work with the cast on 'School of Rock'. I was a little nervous because it was my first acting gig, but it was such a great experience.

When you work with good actors, you feed off each others' energies.

I'm not the best filmmaker, but on the sets, it seems like everybody is having fun.

Actors don't hate acting. Most people don't hate acting! Whether you're a child mucking around with your friends or a grown up being paid to be on a set, pretending to be other people is fun.

Wayne was coming out of a session as Mickey for 'Totally Minnie.' We met in the hallway. We just blended really well.

I really like working with different directors. It's really fun.

When you're playing tag in Roblox; or when you're working in a pizza restaurant; or when you're flying as a bird - you're there to have fun and be with your friends and to create things together.

However good an actor may be, he can't make a scene believable on his own, so it has to be a team work.

That's the fun thing about making movies is that you get to do stuff. You get to be things, say things that you're not, kind of walk in someone else's shoes and play dress up and make believe. It's pretty cool.

Acting is not about competing. Acting is about cooperating. Acting is about collaboration. It's about your utility, your usefulness, your capacity to add to the work that has already been done and will be done. You're just part of a team. I never feel competitive about acting.

I'm always playing characters with intellects profoundly superior to mine. That's great fun, even though it's as much a fantasy for me as for the people watching me.

I love doing a television show. It just always feels like it's a little while before you find something that feels unique and that feels like a character that you really want to play for awhile.

I love writing with Adam Lambert. He's really funny and very fun, he's a great friend.