Eva Mendes Quotes
People are incapable of stereotyping you; you stereotype yourself because you're the one who accepts roles that put you in this rut or in this stereotype.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.
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I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.
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If your mind is still, you're the happiest.
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Because I was in the business of translating the 'X-Men' from the very successful comics, and taking the most popular book of the 20th century in 'The Lord of the Rings,' and making it into three movies, I hope people realize I wouldn't get involved in anything I didn't think was really going to be worth their while.
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It's one thing to be banal, stupid, and idiotic on the inside. It's another to have it captured in writing.
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I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.
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You jump right over anything in the past, and you don't analyze problems.
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I don't believe in luck. ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.
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I am working for a better United Nations. Nothing is perfect. You should never rely on only one source, but rather rely on those you believe in the most.
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To be angry once in a while is really good fun, because it makes others so miserable. But to be angry morning, noon and night, as I am, grows monotonous and prevents my gaining any other pleasure in life.
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I've done enough films to know how to save up my energy for the take and then give it on the take and do that.
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I think it's hard, the fact that there's a certain age that we can't have kids anymore.
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I went to public school up until junior high.
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The true gospelstands before the throne of God declaring, 'Jesus did it all.'
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Reason can tell how love affects us, but cannot tell what love is.
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I soon learned to scent out that which was able to lead to fundamentals and to turn aside from everything else, from the multitude of things which clutter up the mind and divert it from the essential.
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I was doing a play out in L.A. 20-some-odd years ago called 'Goose and Tomtom' by David Rabe, and somebody saw it and the next thing I know I'm doing the table read of the film version of 'Glengarry Glen Ross' with Al Pacino and Jack Lemmon - one of the great films of our generation.
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For me, one of the things art has to examine is how to live your life, and unless it's doing that, it doesn't work for me.
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I enjoy roles that are quite physical.
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Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it.
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Certainly, old age is often incompatible with certain roles and responsibilities.
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People are incapable of stereotyping you; you stereotype yourself because you're the one who accepts roles that put you in this rut or in this stereotype.
