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Eva Mendes, born on March 5, 1974, is a renowned actress. She is best known for her performances in films such as 'The Ring' and 'Stuck in Love', and has gained recognition in Hollywood.

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“When people write lies about you, and you know that they are lies, that means that they don't know the truth.”

People Knows Writing Mean Lying

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“I do like to belong to a man.”

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“I feel I'll take on the responsibility of showing the world a whole different kind of Latin woman.”

World Feels Kind Different Whole Responsibility Latin Different Kinds Latin Women

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“I'm not an exhibitionist. But, honestly, for my art I'll do anything almost. I'll go there.”

Art Honestly Exhibitionist

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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?”

Love Is Hot Naked Islands Why Not Gardening Cuban

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“I don't cook. I respect food too much.”

Too Much Cooking Cooks

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“A shimmery bronzer is the perfect way to look alive. If you don't want to wear makeup, mix some with moisturizer. You'll look pretty but not made-up.”

Ifs Way Want Looks Made Perfect Alive Makeup

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“You can't do sweatpants... ladies, number one cause of divorce in America, sweatpants, no!”

America Causes Numbers Divorce Sweatpants

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“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.”

Thinking Years Wells Heart Stills Bed Monsters Cute Pathetic

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“I liked the monsters, I liked them because I couldn't understand how something so scary could also be so good. It got me thinking as a very early age, and I had a lot of rehearsal.”

Thinking Age Scary Monsters Rehearsal

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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.”

Knows Men Mind Spiritual Materials Open Mind

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“I like the idea of playing a historical detective.”

Ideas Historical Detectives

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“I think we are living in pretty scary times and people are looking for inspiration and are also more open to the spiritual possibilities.”

People Thinking Inspiration Spiritual Possibility Scary Looking For Inspiration

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“That's the beauty of being an actress, is that you hopefully get to have different roles and really stretch yourself. This is really what I've been working for a while. I've been in the business for a minute, and it's an opportunity like this that I've been really working towards.”

Different Opportunity Roles Minutes Actresses Hopefully

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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.”

Stills Fun Acting Class Students Crafts Acting Classes

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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.”

World Firsts Stills Acting Class Pressure Seats Fourth Acting Classes

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“I've taken [acting] class with Larry Moss, who's more kind of in the theater world, so he's really educated me about playwrights.”

World Kind Acting Class Taken Theater Educated Playwright Larry Moss Acting Classes

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“I'm drawn to a lot of tragedies, and I love a Greek tragedy.But I would think - I start thinking realistically about it, and performing eight days a week, that would take a toll. I take things to heart. I don't know if I could survive, like, "Medea."”

Ifs Thinking Knows Heart Week Tragedy Eight Greek Performing If I Could Tolls Greek Tragedy Medea

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“I think it would be so fun to do some kind of comedy, something - I'm not exactly sure, but something like I just did Moliere's "Tartuffe" in class, and wow, what a stretch. Why go to classes? I get to play in Moliere's "Tartuffe," and I could never - nobody would ever think that they would be, I'd be right for that.”

Thinking Kind Play Would Be Fun Class Comedy Wow

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“I do everything I watch, whether it's like a big comic book film that I've done or something very serious and raw.I do have that initial feeling like I'm the worst, this is awful, my work is - I've let everybody down. I definitely have that.”

Book Done Feelings Bigs Film Watches Worst Serious Awful Comic Comic Book Initials

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“I want my mother to think - she's a tough fashion critic.”

Thinking Want Mother Fashion Tough Critics

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“I do think once I get into expectations, I've just trained myself. I've just trained myself to just move on to the next.”

Thinking Moving Next Expectations Just Move On

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“I always see something for sure one time and then I make myself see it a second time. Because second time is like, 'OK, I'm not that bad. I'm not that horrible.' But the first time I just think I'm god-awful.”

Thinking Firsts First Time Okay Horrible Awful One Time

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“Being sexy is just one component. It's not a thing I am. It's a thing I can be. It's a side of myself I can tap into, just like I can tap into my funny side, my quirky side or my dramatic side. It's not what I am.”

I Can Sides Sexy Dramatic Just One Components Quirky Being Sexy

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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.”

Thinking Matter Play Mother Three Roles No Matter What Complicated Being A Mother Great Mother Bad Mother

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“The careers that I admire and actually try to emulate are those of Julianne Moore and Annette Bening. Those women, to me, make amazing choices. They're sexy, beautiful women, but that doesn't dictate their choices.”

Trying Beautiful Choices Careers Sexy Admire Beautiful Women Emulate

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“I wish writing was a talent that I had. I've tried. Unfortunately, I'm just not talented in the writing department. But, if I was, I would just write complicated roles for women because there's a lack of them.”

Ifs Writing Wish Roles Talent Complicated Department

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“I have full faith in people. I think that we have the ability to change. We're habitual creatures. Once we figure out that bad habit and identify it, whether it's behavioral or whatever it may be, we change our habits. Obviously, I'm simplifying it and making it sound very easy to do, and we all know it's very difficult, but it's doable.”

People Thinking Knows May Easy Difficult Sound Ability Figures Habit Creatures Bad Habits Habitual Ability To Change

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“I keep my backstory pretty private and personal.”

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“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.”

People Abuse Died Substance Realising Biographies Enlightening Emulate Substance Abuse

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“My acting coach breaks down what happens to people's bodies when they do drugs. She breaks down what happens physiologically to you.”

People Body Happens Acting Break Drug Coaches Breaking Down

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“The one thing I never want to do is act drunk or act high. You don’t do it from a mental kind of place because then you’re just acting.”

Want Kind Acting One Thing Drunk

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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.”

Done Film Picks Sexuality Nudity

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“I like a mysterious man. I like a man who reads and is knowledgeable about the world, but who doesn’t have to brag about it.”

Men World Mysterious Knowledgeable Brag

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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.”

Wells Hands Strong Watches Nice Strong Hands

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“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!”

People Ifs Knows Writing Mean Lying Parent Talking Phones Circles Checks Apology Phone Calls

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“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.”

Play Acting Roles Study Growing Coaches Crafts Layers

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“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.”

Knows Needs I Can Important Strong Directors Really Deep

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“I think it's so hypocritical to be so anti-nudity in films, and be so pro-violence. I'd rather see two people making love, than somebody being done in. Or being shot and getting their head blown off.”

People Thinking Two Done Film Violence Shots Making Love Nudity Being Done Hypocritical

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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!”

People Ifs Children Two Country Sex Support Seeing Killing Violent Usa Making Love Killing Each Other

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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.”

Important Play Remember Choices Reading Challenges Race Roles Written Drug Scripts Latino What's Important Maids Dealer Drug Dealers

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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!”

Worry Comfortable Stress Zone Feminine Fitting Wardrobe Skirts Silhouettes Malfunction No Stress Wardrobe Malfunctions

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“I don't come from a wealthy or privileged background, and growing up I was always looking for the best quality at a price I could afford. My love of vintage is rooted in that. Drugstores were the mecca for the latest makeup trends and products.”

Quality Growing Up Growing Products Backgrounds Makeup Wealthy Trends Rooted Privileged Vintage Mecca

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“I'm an actress. To be honest, it's a very awkward business. It's one of those things where it's almost like a first date. There's a way you want to come across. You want to show your goods. The truth starts to slip out sometimes.”

Way Want Firsts Sometimes Shows Honest Actresses Being Honest Goods Slips Awkward First Date

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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.”

Ifs Firsts Done Would Be Deals First Date Sure Thing Coachella

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“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."”

People Humans Courses Tables Bread Bites Baskets

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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.”

Thinking Firsts Moving Plans Europe South Innocent Cute Spain

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“I used to love fast food because I had no money, and I was a struggling actor.”

Used Actors Struggle No Money Fast Food Used To Love

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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.”

Play Helping Fun Stuff One Time Cents Disgusting Auditions Tacos Backseat Fun Stuff

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“It's flattering that people think I'm sexy, but it's not the end-all, be-all. The minute I put my self-esteem on what they think I am, I'm screwed, because one day they're not going to think I'm sexy.”

People Thinking Ends Self Minutes Self Esteem One Day Sexy Esteem Flattering

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About the Author

Born: March 5, 1974
Known for: Actress
Quotes: 122

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