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Love Quote by Salma Hayek

"I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun"

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Salma Hayek is selling an unexpected kind of luxury: not yachts and red carpets, but boredom with good lighting. The line lands because it flips celebrity aspiration on its head. She doesn’t romanticize the farm as a brand-new identity; she praises it for having “nothing to do,” then doubles down with a hilariously low-stakes image: watching chickens. That punchline matters. Chickens are the anti-glamour animal, and that’s the point. It’s a small act of self-editing, a way to sound human in a culture that treats famous people like nonstop content machines.

The subtext is about control. For an actress whose public life is scheduled, photographed, and monetized, “nothing to do” is not emptiness; it’s sovereignty. The farm becomes a private set where the stakes are intentionally tiny and the audience is optional. Even the slightly off-kilter phrasing (“its fun”) helps: it reads conversational, unpolished, less PR-approved. That casualness is part of the charm, a signal that she’s not performing a character so much as describing relief.

Culturally, it taps into a post-burnout fantasy that’s everywhere right now: escape from feeds, deadlines, and constant opinion into tactile, repetitive time. Hayek frames that retreat not as retreat from ambition, but as a recalibration of attention. The joke about chickens carries the argument: peace isn’t dramatic. It’s ordinary, and that’s why it feels radical.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Hayek, Salma. (2026, January 16). I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-have-a-farm-and-i-love-it-there-theres-really-107025/

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Hayek, Salma. "I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-have-a-farm-and-i-love-it-there-theres-really-107025/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-have-a-farm-and-i-love-it-there-theres-really-107025/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Salma Hayek

Salma Hayek (born September 2, 1966) is a Actress from Mexico.

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