Eva Mendes Quotes

If I like a person, I don't have any mask/filter. I will open up a lot. I had hurt myself in the past because a couple of persons took advantage of me. I realised that they are not genuine people. Since then, I take time to open myself up for new people.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Since women ask me about male motives all the time, I can offer a bit of advice. If you feel like you're going to get hurt then you shouldn't be there in the first place. That's the way I look at relationships.

I think you have to be guarded but not closed off.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

I don't trust anyone... It's something that I have to live with, and I have to find the balance of who I want in my life and who isn't good for me.

People like me because I'm real.

The key ingredient to building trust is not time. It is courage.

In intimate relationships, if we start trying to be more real, it's very scary.

When you're in the position I'm in, you have two options: you can either shut yourself off from everybody, from the world, and not live a full life. Or you welcome everybody into your life and occasionally somebody will try to take advantage. And I'd much rather be that person who lets people in.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Privacy is big for me. To do interviews even, I have a very love/hate with it.

I don't have many walls that I put up.

I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.

I live my life pretty emotionally, for better and for worse. I'm pretty thin-skinned and transparent. I lead with my heart, and I wanted to make a movie that did the same.

I think part of what makes someone a great actor is being able to walk into a situation emotionally available and open, and have all your guards down, and just have that level of trust and security in yourself to know that you could walk out on that limb with someone else and be safe.

Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

Well, it's really important to be honest with the person that you're seeing.

I spent a lot of time protecting myself. I mean, I've met a lot of extraordinary people over the years - and I just wish I had been able to open myself up to them more.

We have to be vulnerable as actors, but we have to protect ourselves.

If I've learnt one thing, it's that I need to surround myself with people who want to know the real Pete Wentz, not some myth they've concocted from a bunch of press clippings. I can open the door a centimetre wide, and some people think I'm showing them the whole room. But all they're getting is a glimpse. That's all I want to show most people.

Making yourself vulnerable is a key element of leading.

I don't hide anything about myself, so I don't find it difficult to talk about things that happen in my life... But at the same time, I don't like putting myself out there too much. That's how I am.

I think having a private life that you only share with your nearest and dearest is important. Otherwise, who are you?

I think it's impossible to be up close with people and to ask them to let you in if you're fake.