Eva Longoria Quotes

I've always been business-minded. I worked in corporate America before becoming an actress and knew that acting wasn't the end but a means to an end. It gave me the platform and the exposure I needed to do my philanthropic work. It also gave me the financial security to focus on my other businesses, start new businesses, and even help other people start businesses.

Eva Longoria

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• When you're still in the broadcast business, you're still trying to reach tens of millions. You're trying to still aim for a broader audience, and I think that's a more difficult task to spread yourself across that audience, connect with them, as opposed to a very, very small, pinpointed audience. Difficult to do.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Trying
  • Business
  • Small

• As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes that no woman could fail to adore and few real men could hope to emulate.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Men
  • Real
  • Hope

• If you're an artist, you're an artist; that's the only way I can explain it.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • You
  • Artist
  • Explain

• The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Easy
  • Rights
  • Civil Rights

• Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Identity
  • Changing
  • Vampire

• Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Time
  • Chocolate
  • Ice Cream

• The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Life
  • Long
  • Happiness

• Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.

  

  Ottessa Moshfegh
  • People
  • Life
  • Hell

• Designers have told me that their collections are so me, but I don't always recognise it because if you ask me what my style is, I'm really not that sure.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Me
  • Style
  • Always

• If I didn't have a girlfriend, I'd have 10 girls at the studio, and they would make me not rap.

  

  Young Thug
  • Me
  • Rap
  • Girlfriend

• One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.

  

  J. Cole
  • Day
  • Listening
  • Red

• In the case of 'The Deep,' because of the people involved, the talent and the real lives of people who died, I wanted to make the most honest film I could. And sometimes that's the best way to go: Just make the best version of the film you can.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • People
  • Real
  • Best

• Just because someone looks old doesn't mean he or she is. The skin of some people who spend a lot of time outdoors seems to age very rapidly. Someone can look 80 or 90 and only be 40 to 50.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • People
  • Time
  • She

• We can and must turn this page if we are friends and are prepared to look one another in the eye.

  

  Viktor Yushchenko
  • Friends
  • Eye
  • Page

• Women are just much better at getting degrees than men. It seems that school at every level plays to the natural strengths of women more than it does to men.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Men
  • Women
  • School

• I don't like to feel like I'm some fragile package that has to be shipped by high-priority mail and handled with white gloves.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • High
  • Like
  • Feel

• The trouble with records is that they're too short.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Trouble
  • Records
  • Short

• Scotland is the Canada of England!

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • England
  • Canada
  • Scotland

• The thing about Brando was that I'd make these directions, and he'd walk away. He'd heard enough... to get the machine going.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Machine
  • Directions
  • Brando

• You can not only do great things for an urban core by moving your employee base there, you're also going to be a better business.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Great
  • Business
  • Moving

• The first time I saw America was from my perch on the mast of a Spanish naval ship, where I could spot the Statue of Liberty reaching proudly into the open, endless American sky.

  

  Jose Andres
  • Time
  • American
  • America

• Most men will not swim before they are able to.' Is not that witty? Naturally, they won't swim! They are born for the solid earth, not for the water. And naturally they won't think. They are made for life, not for thought. Yes, and he who thinks, what's more, he who makes thought his business, he may go far in it, but he has bartered the solid earth for the water all the same, and one day he will drown.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Men
  • Business
  • Think

• I am a big fan of photography, more of being behind the camera - so when I get the opportunity to work with such great photographers, I always try and learn from their technique.

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • Work
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• I've always been business-minded. I worked in corporate America before becoming an actress and knew that acting wasn't the end but a means to an end. It gave me the platform and the exposure I needed to do my philanthropic work. It also gave me the financial security to focus on my other businesses, start new businesses, and even help other people start businesses.

  

  Eva Longoria
  • Business
  • America
  • Security