Mendes Quotes & Sayings

I think being a woman in Hollywood is a big enough challenge. It really is. I don't want to be one of those people who complain. But the lack of roles out there - it's unbelievable. — Eva Mendes

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. — Eva Mendes

Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces. — Sam Mendes

I've always been really tall and lanky. — Shawn Mendes

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. — Eva Mendes

In this life, you cannot understand what you have not lived. — Cyrille Mendes

Politicizing of kids starts with pregnancy, of course. You shouldn't be drinking wine. You can't be smoking, either. The poor woman is poked and prodded and touched and obsessed over. — Sam Mendes

At a great distance appeared with the same pomp the sheep of Thebes, the dog of Bubastis, the cat of Phoebe, the crocodile of Arsinoe, the goat of Mendes, and all the inferior gods of Egypt, who came to pay homage to the great ox, to the mighty Apis, as powerful as Isis, Osiris, and Horus, united together.
In the midst of the demi-gods, forty priests carried an enormous basket, filled with sacred onions. These were, it is true, gods, but they resembled onions very much.
("The White Bull") — Voltaire

The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts. — Sam Mendes

Sometimes it all gets a little too much, but you gotta realize that soon the fog will clear up. — Shawn Mendes

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. — Eva Mendes

Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie. — Sam Mendes

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. — Eva Mendes

I carry around this little lion named Leo, which I've had for as long as I can remember. — Shawn Mendes

I suppose once in a while, a filmmaker makes a movie that's more than just a sum of its parts, more than good acting or good filmmaking. It's something else that has nothing to do with what you've done. This is in 1999, made by people in 1999 for people in 1999 about people in 1999. — Sam Mendes

I don't think good and evil are polarized. — Sam Mendes

Growing up in a suburban home, the world seems so massive to you. It seems like cities are so big and so far away, and there's so much in them. So your imagination runs wild, instead of when you are born in the middle of Manhattan, you'd know, like, that this is the biggest city. — Shawn Mendes

I make conscious decisions to stay out of the limelight. Without my make-up I'm pretty much the girl next door. — Eva Mendes

I like throwing snowballs at small children. — Sam Mendes

There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it. — Sam Mendes

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. — Eva Mendes

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. — Eva Mendes

Every Bond is different and every generation needs a different Bond and it's been able to move with the times. — Sam Mendes

True friends are never forgotten, they live within our hearts and souls ... forever , and always , dancing on our stage of memories. — Shawn Mendes

Just the fact that a thousand people in front of me were ready to hear me sing was one of the best feelings I can think of. — Shawn Mendes

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. — Eva Mendes

This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom. — Sam Mendes

Her life had been blessedly unburdened by happiness. When some period of fleeting contentment ended, Sofia Mendes did not register it as outrageous, but merely noted a return to life's normal condition. So, as the first weeks after the massacre passed, she simply counted herself lucky to be among others who did not weep and wail for the dead. — Mary Doria Russell

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. — Eva Mendes

I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies. — Sam Mendes

Fourteen weeks before the Mendes fight I tore 80 per cent of my ACL [anterior cruciate ligament]. That is the main ligament for stability. Every day in that training camp when I was working my way back, I was saying "real champions fight through any adversity". That is why I am a real champion and he is not. Look at my eye [he had seven stitches put in an old wound after an injury in training the night before we met]. Fighters fight on. Aldo got scared, he went running and I worry he will run again. — Conor McGregor

I always think, what type of 11th grader would I be if I was still at school? Or if I was home all the time, would I be at the gym 24/7? Would I be as good at guitar? I know I wouldn't be as mature as I am. — Shawn Mendes

I feel I'll take on the responsibility of showing the world a whole different kind of Latin woman. — Eva Mendes

Maybe something that's acceptable in your teens or 20s is unacceptable in your 30s or 40s. — Eva Mendes

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. — Eva Mendes

Nature is made of vibrations of Love. — Joao Mendes

Nature is sound in many forms and states of existence. — Joao Mendes

Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that. — Sam Mendes

I love being naked. I do everything in the nude, even the gardening! We're Cuban, and it's a hot island. Why not go nude? — Eva Mendes

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. — Eva Mendes

We see everything. We see what celebrities buy at the supermarket. It's ridiculous. It's that visibility. I'm confused by this whole celebrity-obsessed culture. — Eva Mendes

I'm a trained actress and I can do it, but I think that you have to prove yourself. — Eva Mendes

It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. But if you find it as beautiful as the character does, then suddenly it becomes a different movie, and so did he as a character. — Sam Mendes

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. — Eva Mendes

You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all. — Sam Mendes

When people write lies about you, and you know that they are lies, that means that they don't know the truth. — Eva Mendes

There's nothing that scares me more than, like, being in the ocean by myself. — Shawn Mendes

Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets out of proportion and you lose touch completely with reality. — Sam Mendes

One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is ... I think working with an actor who the audience already has a relationship with actually helps you in a film like this. — Sam Mendes

If you took me to Coachella for our first date, it would probably be a done deal. It would be a sure thing. — Eva Mendes

When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white. — Sam Mendes

I loved Nashville. I was amazed by the whole place. — Shawn Mendes

It's fun to be a woman. It's fun to flirt and wear makeup and have boobs — Eva Mendes

I like the idea of playing a historical detective. — Eva Mendes

The first year I started hockey, I didn't know how to skate, so I got on the ice with all of the hockey players, and we were doing drills where we had to go backwards in figure eights. And I could not skate, and I just kept falling on my butt, and it was very embarrassing. — Shawn Mendes

I feel like every time I write a song, it feels like the first time I wrote a song. It's just as hard; it doesn't get easier, but that's why I love it: because it's a challenge every time. I also feel like I'm learning new ways. — Shawn Mendes

I don't usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it's true - I'm scary. — Eva Mendes

I really like nice forearms - nice strong hands and forearms. I love that because then they can wear a watch really well. — Eva Mendes

I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is different. — Sam Mendes

Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through. — Sam Mendes

I want to inspire, and be inspired. — Sam Mendes

The joy of a road movie is its very simple narrative nature, which is that you know you're going to go through different places and you're going to meet new people. At the same time, you have to not make it feel too obvious and too crudely episodic. — Sam Mendes

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. — Eva Mendes

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. — Eva Mendes

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. — Eva Mendes

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! — Eva Mendes

'Anchorman' is my favorite movie of all time and Ron Burgundy is one of my favorite characters of all time. It's my 'Gone With the Wind.' — Eva Mendes

I wanted to keep exploring ... I'm not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and style that I used in the first film. — Sam Mendes

What the world thought made little difference. Rembrandt had to
paint. Whether he painted well or badly didn't matter; painting was the
stuff that held him together as a man. The chief value of art, Vincent, lies
in the expression it gives to the artist. Rembrandt fulfilled what he knew
to be his life purpose; that justified him. Even if his work had been
worthless, he would have been a thousand times more successful than if
he had put down his desire and become the richest merchant in
Amsterdam. (Mendes Da Costa — Irving Stone

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. — Eva Mendes

Meditation really helps create not only a sense of balance ... but serenity and kind of a calm state of mind. — Eva Mendes

There's one thing better than having a great actor, and that's having a great actor who's never done this kind of role before and is hungry to do it. They're testing themselves every day. They want to get out of their trailer and get to work. — Sam Mendes

I'm certainly getting a lot more mail ... that's basically it. — Sam Mendes

Once we got the scene down, we were told to improv. — Eva Mendes

I've done commercials that Sam Mendes directed. Paul Feig directed me in a commercial. — Kether Donohue

Sam [Mendes] said he took advantage of the fact that Kate and I were so close for many years. He knew it was something he could harness in our performances, and we knew that too. — Leonardo DiCaprio

Manuka honey is magic. — Shawn Mendes

I love the little suckers; they're so cute but I love sleep so much and I worry about everything. — Eva Mendes

Children make you confront your own childhood. Which I think is common. Suddenly you're remembering your own parents as parents, not to mention the fact that you're confronted by them as grandparents. So you also have that terrible shock, a mirror image of your own. You suddenly seem to be so helpless in the face of young children. And you think, "How did you ever bring up me?" — Sam Mendes

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. — Eva Mendes

I like dancers. I have a thing for girls who dance. — Shawn Mendes

I used to write stories. Handwriting stories in school were a big deal for me. That's kind of what I did. — Shawn Mendes

Mix one part Denzel Washington and two parts Eva Mendes and you have a nice hot cocktail. — Dean Cain

Every time I write a song my approach changes. — Shawn Mendes

Learn to say, "I don't know the answer." It could be the beginning of a very good day's rehearsal. — Sam Mendes

I do like to belong to a man. — Eva Mendes

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. — Eva Mendes

I just want to be known for things other than my sexuality. — Eva Mendes

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. — Eva Mendes

The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words. — Sam Mendes

The transformation of nature, a total fusion of science, art and technology in a sublime statement of human dignity and intelligence through the settlements we build for ourselves. — Paulo Mendes Da Rocha

I'm definitely responsible for the image that I put out there. But it does become frustrating, because I don't want 'sexy' to be my defining characteristic. I'd love for my ambition and will and intellect and sense of humour to define me as well. — Eva Mendes

I became an ecologist long before I had ever heard the word, — Chico Mendes

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. — Eva Mendes

Even if you buy a fur glove with the little trim, and you think 'Oh, my God, it's just a little trim,' that animal got clubbed. — Eva Mendes

I don't cook. I respect food too much. — Eva Mendes

Listen, you make a big movie, you're going into the Coliseum, and people are going to give you the thumbs up or the thumbs down. And that's part of the game. It's part of the fun as well. — Sam Mendes

Maybe I'm just a kid in love. — Shawn Mendes

The moment you have kids, you are prey to judgment, but you also become a judge. You find yourself going, "Can you believe what she did with such-and-such?" at school. — Sam Mendes

And now that I'm without your kisses, I'll be needing stitches. — Shawn Mendes