Top 100 Mendes Quotes
#1. I've done commercials that Sam Mendes directed. Paul Feig directed me in a commercial.
Kether Donohue
#2. I ask, "You ever hear that a person has to go through fire to become who they're meant to be?"
Mendes sips her coffee, nods. "Sure."
"I've always wanted to be strong, Miss Mendes, I just wish there wasn't so much fire.
David Arnold
#3. 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
#5. Mix one part Denzel Washington and two parts Eva Mendes and you have a nice hot cocktail.
Dean Cain
#6. When I first met Sam Mendes, I was a bit confused and said to him, 'I'm 50 years old. What am I going to do at 50 in a Bond film?'
Monica Bellucci
#7. I'm in a Bond film directed by Sam Mendes, with Daniel Craig. I want it to be perfect.
Stephanie Sigman
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rain forest. Now I realize I am fighting for humanity
Chico Mendes
#11. Sometimes it all gets a little too much, but you gotta realize that soon the fog will clear up.
Shawn Mendes
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. I want to inspire, and be inspired.
Sam Mendes
#15. Every time I write a song my approach changes.
Shawn Mendes
#16. 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
#18. I've been with the same person for a very long time but I'm just non-conventional in that way. I don't think people need to be married. I think a lot of people need that piece of paper, but I don't think everybody needs that to feel secure.
Eva Mendes
#19. 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
#21. I love my country, but I believe that we are too quick to censor nudity.
Eva Mendes
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. Don't put a question mark where God already put a period.
T.M. Mendes
#26. 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
#27. I talk about therapy a lot because I love therapy. It has just enriched my life.
Eva Mendes
#28. I think now we just know way too much about our celebrities. It's not that interesting when you know that much about people.
Eva Mendes
#30. It's a risk casting anyone against type or what they're known to do. But there's one thing better than having a great actor, which is having a great actor who's never done what you're asking him to do. He's hungry to get out of the trailer every day and hungry to test himself.
Sam Mendes
#31. 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.
Eva Mendes
#32. I used to love fast food because I had no money, and I was a struggling actor.
Eva Mendes
#33. 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
#34. And now that I'm without your kisses, I'll be needing stitches.
Shawn Mendes
#35. I'd rather sleep on the bus than in the hotel because I sleep way better on tour buses.
Shawn Mendes
#36. I don't cook. I respect food too much.
Eva Mendes
#37. 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.
Eva Mendes
#38. 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
#39. I feel I'll take on the responsibility of showing the world a whole different kind of Latin woman.
Eva Mendes
#41. 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
#42. I'm certainly getting a lot more mail ... that's basically it.
Sam Mendes
#43. Maybe something that's acceptable in your teens or 20s is unacceptable in your 30s or 40s.
Eva Mendes
#44. I always see something for sure one time and then I make myself see it a second time. The second time is like, 'Okay, I'm not that bad. I'm not that horrible.' But the first time I just think I'm god-awful.
Eva Mendes
#45. 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
#46. I want my mother to think - she's a tough fashion critic.
Eva Mendes
#47. I'm a very spontaneous person. When I see something that might be fun or different, I will try it.
Shawn Mendes
#49. Learn to say, "I don't know the answer." It could be the beginning of a very good day's rehearsal.
Sam Mendes
#50. 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
#51. I don't usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it's true - I'm scary.
Eva Mendes
#52. Actors used to carry films because people would have to actually go to the movies to see them. It was the only place. But now there's none of that mystique, and so there's less of a reason to buy a ticket.
Eva Mendes
#53. Because celebrities' lives are so visible, I think it makes it look lighter than it is.
Eva Mendes
#54. 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
#55. All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which they operate. My language to each of them has to suit their brain.
Sam Mendes
#56. 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
#57. You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.
Sam Mendes
#58. I'm not the best singer in the world; I'm just good at picking up what I want to sound like.
Shawn Mendes
#59. 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
#60. I think when you have raw emotion in a song, it makes it great.
Shawn Mendes
#61. The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.
Sam Mendes
#62. I don't want to just be a teenage star. I want to be known by parents, and I want them to go, 'Oh I love that song; he's really good for his age. My daughter loves him, but I love him, too.'
Shawn Mendes
#63. My acting coach breaks down what happens to people's bodies when they do drugs. She breaks down what happens physiologically to you.
Eva Mendes
#64. I became an ecologist long before I had ever heard the word,
Chico Mendes
#65. I read a lot of scripts. I believe you've got to read one that you know you're not going to do, because you've got to educate yourself on what's out there to make the best decision for you.
Eva Mendes
#67. What's interesting is that my style is a lot crazier than what I project out there. It's a lot edgier.
Eva Mendes
#68. 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
#69. There's nothing that scares me more than, like, being in the ocean by myself.
Shawn Mendes
#70. In this life, you cannot understand what you have not lived.
Cyrille Mendes
#71. I like the idea of playing a historical detective.
Eva Mendes
#72. 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
#73. I've never had a problem with nudity, but I don't put it out there without a reason.
Eva Mendes
#74. 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
#75. You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.
Sam Mendes
#76. I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance.
Sam Mendes
#77. I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.
Sam Mendes
#78. Nature is sound in many forms and states of existence.
Joao Mendes
#79. 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
#80. Directing Skyfall was one of the best experiences of my professional life, but I have theatre and other commitments, including productions of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory and King Lear, that need my complete focus over the next year and beyond.
Sam Mendes
#81. Being 15, I feel like people want me to go down the Justin Bieber, Cody Simpson sort of genre.
Shawn Mendes
#82. The ideal project does not exist, each time there is the opportunity to realize an approximation.
Paulo Mendes Da Rocha
#83. Kevin and Annette ... I wanted them to do it together. They clearly wanted to work with each other.
Sam Mendes
#85. 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.
Eva Mendes
#86. I really like nice forearms - nice strong hands and forearms. I love that because then they can wear a watch really well.
Eva Mendes
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. 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.
Eva Mendes
#90. You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.
Sam Mendes
#91. 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
#92. I feel like the American years were my apprenticeship for doing a Bond movie.
Sam Mendes
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. I carry around this little lion named Leo, which I've had for as long as I can remember.
Shawn Mendes
#97. I might act like it's an accident but the opposite is true. I'm incredibly calculated when it comes to my career.
Eva Mendes
#98. I make conscious decisions to stay out of the limelight. Without my make-up I'm pretty much the girl next door.
Eva Mendes
#99. Once we got the scene down, we were told to improv.
Eva Mendes
#100. One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.
Sam Mendes
