Salma Hayek Quotes

Films are tricky because for years you're getting told you're about to make it and you're about to be busy for four or six months or you're about to be on tour for press. But these things tend not to happen, and meanwhile you've said 'no' to many things 'cause you thought you were going to be busy, for years, for years this happens.

You know you can't satisfy anybody.

It was hard every time I found out that I was not in the starting XI.

If you don't score, and you have chances, you are disappointed.

My England captaincy was not the England captaincy I wanted, that's what will live with me for a long time.

A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.

I'm disappointed that I really haven't been able to race in a way that is reflective of the amount of work that I have done and how I have trained. But I don't regret giving this a go.

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.

There's only so much you can do of trying, finding yourself very close to getting a part and then not getting it.

Most of the stuff I've written has never even gotten made. It's par for the course. It's a great living, but it also gets very frustrating.

You finish a movie and you think, there, you've done it, really well, or best you can. But if you watch it, you see it was just bollocks.

I had been on several shows that were meant to be the big ones, that would go on forever, and they didn't.

There are a lot of movies I'd like to throw away. That's not to say that I went in with that attitude. Any film I ever started, I went in with all the hope and best intentions in the world, but some films just don't work.

It's hard when you put a year of good work into something and someone at the top says no, and they pull your show's title off a bulletin board and chuck it in the trash.

There've been moments where I just was tired of being in L.A. It was very difficult. I mean, you're constantly rejected. And that's OK, it's just really frustrating for me, because I try to read scripts and projects that have really great, deeper, meaningful qualities to them.

There are times when you feel like you give a great effort, you have prepared properly, and you got less than what you wanted. So on the one hand, you should feel really good about that and just let the results be what they are. On the other hand, you can't be happy with it when you finished 19th.

The filmmakers who I'm pining to work for aren't ringing my phone off the hook.

Sometimes what someone else does is really not what you expected them to do, which to be honest, sometimes doesn't work.

You never get every job you want.

I'm just deeply disappointed that once again we may have to settle for the lesser of two evils.

I can't say that I knocked on every door, but the few that I did didn't respond the way I wanted them to, so I think it was kind of disenchanting enough for me to go back to being subterranean.

I remember rehearsing it, and it was the one that we were really excited about and thought would sound the best, and once it was down on tape, it was like, This doesn't actually sound that good.

To all who leaned upon Mr. Gladstone, who trusted him, and hoped for something from him—chips, nothing but chips—hard, dry, unnourishing, indigestible chips.

I was very unhappy when I used to record and things wouldn't turn out the way I would want to, because I was being such a nice girl. I wouldn't complain when things were going wrong.

With all the awards I've won, you'd think that I'd at least be able to make a living. It's a really terrible situation.