Eva Mendes Quotes
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I'm not an exhibitionist. But, honestly, for my art I'll do anything almost. I'll go there.
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When I've been open and accepting of where I am, things start opening up.
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You're going from audition to audition, changing in the backseat, and all that fun stuff that's great to do at one time in your life. That's when the 49-cent taco, as disgusting as it is, really plays into your day. It really helps you out.
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The one thing I cannot tolerate in life is seeing people being taken advantage of, I cannot tolerate it; I can't even see it in a movie. That can borderline on abuse and so what I would say is: really know when to put that guard up, and know how to really read people because that will help you along the way.
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I love therapy! There's nothing like talking to someone who has no emotional tie to your life.
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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 am a man with an open mind. I really don't know anything, but I'm very interested in the spiritual and the material.
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I do like to belong to a man.
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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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I remember reading scripts when I started in the business, and Latino roles were either nonexistent or written as the maid or a drug dealer. We're no longer just that. I'll play any part that challenges me. What's important is that all races have choices.
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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 speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best of both worlds.
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I'm actually big into meditation, transcendental meditation, and that really helps create not only a sense of balance, but all the other stuff this is gonna sound cliché... serenity and kind of a calm state of mind. And not that I'm like that all the time, but it helps me deal with life's ups and downs, coming from more of a centered place. Also it helps with creativity.
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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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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.
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I wanted to go into art history. Acting fell into my lap when a neighbor took pictures of me and showed them to an agent.
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I'm very free with my sexuality, but not everywhere all the time. I pick and choose when I do nudity, and who I do it for when I'm working, and when I'm doing it. I've done nudity twice in a film.
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It's challenging being a woman. There are other kinds of obstacles that come your way, but there are many times that being Latin has actually helped me, being a Cuban-American has helped me.
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I've never had a problem with nudity, but I don't put it out there without a reason.
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I really like nice forearms - nice strong hands and forearms. I love that because then they can wear a watch really well.
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The celebrity world can be so ugly. Everyone seems to have slept with everyone else and it's some sort of strange weird cycle. I don't want to get into that.
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If I had a child, and I accidentally walked in on him seeing something, I'd rather he'd be seeing two people making love, than two people killing each other. USA in such a violent country, that I'd rather support sex!
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People in my inner circle of loved ones - we're tight and I've never misjudged someone as far as I know; I can feel someone's intentions, I know their intentions before they probably are honest enough with themselves to know it, so that's my strength.
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If you took me to Coachella for our first date, it would probably be a done deal. It would be a sure thing.