196 Quotes by Eva Mendes

I love having a man in my life, and being his woman at the end of the day. I know it’s a dichotomy.

When people write lies about you, and you know that they are lies, that means that they don’t know the truth, so that’s OK with me. If something true came out, I would have to check my circle to see who’s talking and possibly make an apology phone call to my parents!

I’ve learned that it’s way harder to be a baby. Everything is a struggle for her. For instance, I haven’t thrown up since the ’90s and she’s thrown up twice since we started this interview. Motherhood is cake compared to what it’s like to be a baby.

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 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.

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.

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.

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 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.