Eva Mendes Quotes

Don't be naive and allow a man to take advantage of you.

I don't want to be a punching bag.

The laughing way we make damaged people our playthings, it's so dehumanizing.

I don't want people mistreating me. I found out when you're vulnerable and your heart's open, then people step on you. You're really stupid for letting that happen. And the only way to counteract that is to be like Wolfman Jack. Because if you do nice, kind things for people, then how are they going to mess you over?

I like being innocent, but know now when I am being taken for a ride.

It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you.

Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

Pity is just another form of abuse.

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

I've always been struck by how unsuspicious people are in general, if you tell them what you're about.

It was my first big relationship and it was just very abusive. I wouldn't give him the credit of naming him, if he ever reads this. But he was older, in the music business - or so he said.

People try constantly to use me, and I hate it.

It's fun to play people who are flawed.

It's easy to be taken advantage of if you're not honest.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

Goodness is something people take advantage of, and if you want to remain a good person for long, you should make sure that too many people don't take advantage of you because then you turn bitter.

You can't fool children.

I would say that it's wrong to milk someone's misery.

I hope it never gets to that point that I'm gonna have people around me that are using me. I'm very good with noticing that.

You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save you.

Cruelty isn't softened by tears; it feeds on them.

'There may be some, perhaps - I don't know that there are - who abuse his kindness,' said Mr. Wickfield. 'Never be one of those, Trotwood, in anything. He is the least suspicious of mankind; and whether that's a merit, or whether it's a blemish, it deserves consideration in all dealings with the Doctor, great or small.

This twenty-year-old boy was distinguished from childhood by strange qualities, a dreamer and an eccentric. A girl fell in love with him, and he went and sold her to a brothel.

Give a clown your finger, and he will take your hand.

I?d rather be rejected than used because they both amount to the same thing in the end, but being used takes a lot longer.