Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

About Salma Hayek

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Salma Valgarma Hayek Pinault ( HY-ek, Spanish: [ˈsalma ˈxaʝek]; née Hayek Jiménez; born September 2, 1966) is a Mexican and American actress and film producer. She began her career in Mexico with starring roles in the telenovela Teresa (1989–1991) as well as the romantic drama Midaq Alley (1995). She soon...

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I have gotten a lot more attention than… other women that I find incredibly beautiful. And this has happened to me ever since I was a girl, when I was flat, had no teeth, was skinny and small as I could be. I always got more attention than anyone else. If I hadn't, I would have made sure I did.

Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.

Your pasion must come from the things that fuel you from the inside. Honors and awards are nice things, but only to the extent that they regard the real respect from your peers.

If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?

The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy.

More quotations tagged with “humor”

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.

—Robert Benchley

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Humor is a rubber sword—it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.

—Peter Ustinov

Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.

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