Frida Kahlo: I love a man with melones that are bigger than mine. Diego Rivera: And I love a woman with cojones.
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Salma Hayek
Salma Hayek Pinault (née Hayek Jiménez; born September 2, 1966), is a Mexican and American film actress, producer, and former model. She began her career in Mexico starring in the telenovela Teresa and starred in the film El Callejón de los Milagros (Miracle Alley) for which she was nominated for an Ariel Award. In 1991 Hayek moved to Hollywood and came to prominence with roles in movies such as Desperado (1995), From Dusk Till Dawn (1996), Dogma (1999), and Wild Wild West (1999). Her breakthrough role was in the 2002 film Frida as Mexican painter Frida Kahlo for which she was nominated in the category of Best Actress for an Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, and Golden Globe Award. This movie received widespread attention and was a critical and commercial success. She won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing in a Children/Youth/Family Special in 2004 for The Maldonado Miracle and received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series in 2007 after guest-starring in the ABC television comedy-drama Ugly Betty. She also guest-starred on the NBC comedy series 30 Rock from 2009 to 2013. Hayek's recent films include Grown Ups (2010), Puss in Boots (2011), Grown Ups 2 (2013), Tale of Tales (2015) and The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017). 2Early life Hayek was born Salma Hayek Jiménez in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico. Her younger brother, Sami (born 1972), is a furniture designe
Diego Rivera: Thank you. Frida Kahlo: For what? Diego Rivera: For making a fat, old, crazy communist a happy man.
Diego Rivera: Is fidelity that important to you? Frida Kahlo: Loyalty is important to me. Can you be loyal?
They say never trust a limping dog or the tears of a woman.
I want you to burn this Judas of a body. I don't want to be buried. I've spent enough time lying down. Burn it.
You've been my comrade, my fellow artist, and my best friend, but you've never been my husband.
Careful, guys. This corpse is still breathing. Try to get me there in one piece.
I had two big accidents in my life Diego, the trolley and you....You are by far the worse.
Frida Kahlo: I just want your serious opinion. Diego Rivera: What do you care about my opinion? If you're a real painter, you'll paint because you can't live without painting. You'll paint till you die.
Diego Rivera: You know, I don't believe in God...but I thank him every day that he kept you safe for me. Frida Kahlo: Oh really?... I tell you he's got a lot of explaining to do.
Frida Kahlo: What do you think matters most for a good marriage? Guillermo Kahlo: A short memory. Frida Kahlo: Why did you get married? Guillermo Kahlo: I can't remember.
At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.
For the first and last time in my career, I had a nervous breakdown: My body began to shake uncontrollably, my breath was short and I began to cry and cry, unable to stop, as if I were throwing up tears. It was not because I would be naked with another woman. It was because I would be naked with her…
Little did I know it would become my turn to say no. No to opening the door to him at all hours of the night, hotel after hotel, location after location, where he would show up unexpectedly, including one location where I was doing a movie he wasn’t even involved with. No to me taking a shower with…
In every woman there is a girl.
Once we started filming, the sexual harassment stopped but the rage escalated. We paid the price for standing up to him nearly every day of shooting.
Why do so many of us, as female artists, have to go to war to tell our stories when we have so much to offer? Why do we have to fight tooth and nail to maintain our dignity? I think it is because we, as women, have been devalued artistically to an indecent state, to the point where the film industry…
In his eyes, I was not an artist. I wasn’t even a person. I was a thing: not a nobody, but a body.
She had the courage to express herself while disregarding skepticism.
I think it is because we, as women, have been devalued artistically to an indecent state, to the point where the film industry stopped making an effort to find out what female audiences wanted to see and what stories we wanted to tell.