Eva Mendes Quotes
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Affordable prices are important to me. My mother lets me know if something is too expensive. With a few dresses, she's, like, "That's too much." "But Mom, it's $59.99." "It's too much." And then I go back and we talk about price points. My family keeps my grounded.
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Knowing when someone's the real deal or not, but still with putting your guard up and self-protecting, you've got to stay open. It comes back to balance.
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It's the scariest thing in the world, going to acting class, because first of all, there's a lot of pressure. I just go back to being that fourth grader who couldn't, like, sit still in her seat.
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I make conscious decisions to stay out of the limelight. Without my make-up I'm pretty much the girl next door.
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I love a loose-fitting skirt with a cinched waist. A feminine silhouette is a no-stress zone - it's comfortable and I don't have to worry about wardrobe malfunctions!
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I used to love fast food because I had no money, and I was a struggling actor.
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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.
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When I first went to Europe, I thought I was going to move there. I was making plans to move to the south of Spain. It's such a cute, innocent thought. I think we all go through it.
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I love it, but it's not important to me to always be thought of as sexy. I like it when it doesn't limit my career. It's a part of my life, but on a secondary plane.
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I have to be a little bit guarded, because I can be very open and I like to include people, but then again I have to remind myself to be careful.
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I might act like it's an accident but the opposite is true. I'm incredibly calculated when it comes to my career.
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A lot of my social media posts are about celebrating these women who wear our clothes, feel great in them and have comments.
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I like the idea of playing a historical detective.
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I'm very comfortable with myself and my sexuality, but it doesn't define me. I also read books believe it or not.
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I think that, when you play a mother, whether you play a bad mother or a not so great mother or an amazing mother, being a mother is already so complicated. It's already three-dimensional, automatically, no matter what the role is, because you're playing a mother.
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I still go to acting class. I love the craft. It's just so much fun for me, and I'm always a student.
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I just love architecture, and I just love the idea of being someone who sees the world differently and doing everything you can do in order to actualize that dream. And really sticking to your guns when everyone else is telling you that you're crazy.
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I do like to belong to a man.
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I love having a man in my life, and being his woman at the end of the day. I know it's a dichotomy.
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I talk about therapy a lot because I love therapy. It has just enriched my life.
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It's fun to be a woman. It's fun to flirt and wear makeup and have boobs.
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I love being naked. I do everything in the nude, even the gardening! We're Cuban, and it's a hot island. Why not?
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I'm a modern woman in the sense of I take care of myself, I'm fiercely independent, and I'm really ambitious. Yet I have these old-school thoughts in my mind.
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There's something very romantic to me about people who persevere, and who get told "no, no, no" on a daily basis, and still do it anyway.