Eva Mendes Quotes
What's interesting is that my style is a lot crazier than what I project out there. It's a lot edgier.
Yet in the celebrity-obsessed culture, where everything of you is a shot on the red carpet, I don't want that to dominate my image. First and foremost, I am an actor. I want great roles.
I think now we just know way too much about our celebrities. It's not that interesting when you know that much about people.
I love the little suckers; they're so cute. But I love sleep so much, and I worry about everything.
I love sleeping. If there was an Olympics for it, I'd take gold. I'm Cuban. We love to sleep.
I don't go to premieres. I attend film openings I'm in, and that's about it. Fame and celebrity doesn't matter to me. The longevity of my career does.
Well I'm a 5 year old at heart; I still think that there is a monster under my bed - and I'm not joking. It's pathetic, it's really not cute.
I hope to never stop growing. I hope that with every role I play, I keep adding layers to my craft. I love acting and I study religiously with my coach.
Meditation really helps create not only a sense of balance... but serenity and kind of a calm state of mind.
I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best of both worlds.
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.
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
When the bread basket comes to the table and I have a bite, people are like, "Oh, you eat bread?" I say, "Oh, my God, of course I eat bread. I'm human."
I might act like it's an accident but the opposite is true. I'm incredibly calculated when it comes to my career.
It's important for me to work with a strong director because I know I can go to some really deep places, I just need direction on how to get there.
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.
A lot of my social media posts are about celebrating these women who wear our clothes, feel great in them and have comments.
I still go to acting class. I love the craft. It's just so much fun for me, and I'm always a student.
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.
When people write lies about you, and you know that they are lies, that means that they don't know the truth.
I'm drawn to look tough. The arched eyebrows are just there - I don't do them like that. I have strong features, but I wish I could be tougher.
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.
I come from a family and a heritage where you don't really go to therapy unless you're crazy. I want people to know that that's so not the case. It's enriching, and I've learned this new tool.
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.
My acting coach breaks down what happens to people's bodies when they do drugs. She breaks down what happens physiologically to you.
The biographies are very enlightening because you realise, "Oh my God, all these people I’ve admired - and tried to emulate even - when I was younger died tragically from substance abuse.
