Salma Hayek Quotes

I've worked since I was 18. I have no trust fund and don't expect anything.

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what's mine.

I always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.

Even though I wasn't sure I could make it as an indie, almost immediately I felt as if a weight had been lifted off me. To be as independent as I am and to be able to support myself is incredibly satisfying. Everything I want to do myself, I can.

Being self-supporting is important to me.

My grandfather, as I said, was industrious. He'd had a variety of jobs and decided sometime in the 1940s that he would never work for anyone. He was also a very independent man.

I'm a freelance person, and I've always been able to support myself.

I currently live independently without any funded support. I'm educated, and I'm employed. I enjoy paying my taxes and contributing to the economic life of Australia.

I work hard and support myself.

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.

I've always decided that I would never be dependant on a man.

I've spent my life supporting myself.

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.

When you are facing the wilderness on your own, you have a totally different attitude to someone who works in government or who has a monthly cheque.

If it's independent, it's because I love it... 'cause they usually end up costing me money to do.

I'm for economic independence.

I've always earned my own money and enjoy being independent. It's how I was brought up.

Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.

For me, the biggest thing with money has always been independence - just the biggest.

I've always been a workhorse, and I've been supporting myself since I was 15.

My mother always told me, 'Don't get married. Make your own life. You don't need a man.'

Money gives you the power to do whatever you want to do. I like the idea of being in complete control of my life.

I've lived on my own since I was 18, and I really love living alone. That, to me, is just great.

The fact that I am able to live a life and act and to do all of those things and support myself and my family is a gift.