Top 80 Eva Mendes Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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

2. “I love my curves and I embrace them.”

— Eva Mendes

3. “I don’t usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it’s true – I’m scary.”

— Eva Mendes

4. “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

5. “Rejection is good for the soul.”

— Eva Mendes

6. “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.”

— Eva Mendes

7. “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.”

— Eva Mendes

8. “We seem okay with violence, but nudity we race to criticize and censor.”

— Eva Mendes

9. “I’m proud of people who have the determination and the fearlessness to actually go and face their demons and get better.”

— Eva Mendes

10. “I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best of both worlds.”

— Eva Mendes

11. “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

12. “I love every aspect of being a woman. I believe you should celebrate who you are.”

— Eva Mendes

13. “Perfectionism is boring and doesn’t exist-to strive for it makes you uninteresting.”

— Eva Mendes

14. “I don’t cook. I respect food too much.”

— Eva Mendes

15. “I love sleeping. If there was an Olympics for it, I’d take gold. I’m Cuban. We love to sleep.”

— Eva Mendes

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

— Eva Mendes

17. “I do like to belong to a man.”

— Eva Mendes

18. “I keep my backstory pretty private and personal.”

— Eva Mendes

19. “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!”

— Eva Mendes

20. “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.”

— Eva Mendes

21. “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

22. “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.”

— Eva Mendes

23. “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.”

— Eva Mendes

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

— Eva Mendes

25. “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

26. “I’m very comfortable with myself and my sexuality, but it doesn’t define me. I also read books believe it or not.”

— Eva Mendes

27. “I love therapy! There’s nothing like talking to someone who has no emotional tie to your life.”

— Eva Mendes

28. “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.”

— Eva Mendes

29. “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!”

— Eva Mendes

30. “I really like nice forearms – nice strong hands and forearms. I love that because then they can wear a watch really well.”

— Eva Mendes

31. “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.””

— Eva Mendes

32. “We shouldn’t dwell on what is ‘perfect.’ We should celebrate our uniqueness.”

— Eva Mendes

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

— Eva Mendes

34. “It’s tapping into something so deep that when I reap the rewards, I do not even know I’m reaping them. It’s a more overall kinda thing.”

— Eva Mendes

35. “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.”

— Eva Mendes

36. “It’s fun to be a woman. It’s fun to flirt and wear makeup and have boobs.”

— Eva Mendes

37. “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.”

— Eva Mendes

38. “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

39. “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.”

— Eva Mendes

40. “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

41. “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

42. “I talk about therapy a lot because I love therapy. It has just enriched my life.”

— Eva Mendes

43. “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

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

— Eva Mendes

45. “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

46. “I make conscious decisions to stay out of the limelight. Without my make-up I’m pretty much the girl next door.”

— Eva Mendes

47. “I don’t like my men to be too ornate. I like them to stand back and let their women shine, and they should really wear the pants in the relationship.”

— Eva Mendes

48. “What makes it frustrating is when a director or a studio head doesn’t see me for the same part that they’ll see, let’s say, Drew Barrymore for. Drew’s a great friend of mine. But it’s like, “No, we want more of an American type of girl.””

— Eva Mendes

49. “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.”

— Eva Mendes

50. “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