Salma Hayek Quotes

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

You win any which way you can. You do what you have to do to get by. That's the way it works in any job.

Coming from a big family, I learned a lot. Things don't have to be perfect. You can do okay with 'almost.'

It is best to live however one can be.

I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.

I'm very proud of being a hack. It's why I've lived as long as I have, I think.

If you don't have what you need, just rock with what you've got!

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

But I love the idea - whether it's in my work or where I live - exploring new frontier, and I like putting myself in strange places and trying to survive and figure things out and gather up an infrastructure. I like knowing that I could figure out a way to live anywhere.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

I'd hate to have to leave music, but if I got stuck some place, I would.

I think if you try to tailor your act to anybody, you end up with an act that doesn't work anyway.

One learns to itch where one can scratch.

Take whatever happens and try to make it work.

I always try to take the unexpected things and make them work for me.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

I am willing ... when I cannot get all I wish, to take what I can get.

In sport, you just have to take what you can get.

I think I've learned, really, just how to let go - if an idea doesn't work, or it's not perfect, that's O.K.

But I'm the type of person who, whatever you throw at me, I can make something out of it.

When you cannot have something, you make what you have work.

All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.

Start from wherever you are and with whatever you've got.

Make your plans to fit the circumstances.

That has been my entire life story. Running against the current and running with the current. Sometimes running with the current is underestimated. The acceptance of certain realities doesn’t preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.