Paula Patton Quotes & Sayings

Becoming a mother is the best thing that's happened to me. — Paula Patton

I always like the physical comedy because I actually do a lot of it in my own life, but not on purpose. I am the klutziest person on the planet. It's easy for me. — Paula Patton

When you're in your own body, you don't feel great about yourself. I don't think of myself that way. — Paula Patton

Comedy is not supposed to be funny. Its supposed to tell the truth and then that's funny. — Paula Patton

The older I get, the more I accept and appreciate myself. — Paula Patton

I'm an extremist. Either I'm being healthy and organic, or I want a big, juicy In-N-Out burger, I want it all now! It sure makes me happy. — Paula Patton

I think the age we're living in is starting to get scary. — Paula Patton

I really appreciate and respect the audience. People pay their hard-earned money to go watch you, so I feel like it's my job to give 100,000% of myself to what I'm doing. — Paula Patton

As a little girl I always dreamed of having a cosmetics contract, which was the cherry on top of 'making it' in my opinion. — Paula Patton

You just can't take yourself too seriously, especially in comedy. — Paula Patton

I feel like movies should stick to a genre and give the audience what they want, and then surprise them with the unexpected, and not just do the same thing you've always seen. — Paula Patton

If you're an actress and even one person knows your name, you're lucky. — Paula Patton

A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it's a tragedy. A movie combines all those forms and forces you to pay attention for two hours with a group of people. — Paula Patton

If you have the capacity to love, you have the capacity to love anyone. — Paula Patton

I don't try to intellectualize characters too much. But I always think of the audience. I always make sure that my characters are likeable. — Paula Patton

Sometimes I do yoga, sometimes it's kickboxing, sometimes it's weight training, sometimes it's Pilates. — Paula Patton

I'm black because that's the way the world sees me. — Paula Patton

Making African American films are hard in Hollywood. We need to rely on a support network and bring more cohesion to different filmmakers, actors, producers etc. It's a very difficult business. There aren't a lot of Africans Americans or people of color in high positions in Hollywood that we can green-light films. — Paula Patton

Maybe at the core of me, I'm a survivor, but I don't do it on purpose. Sometimes, in acting of course with your performance, some of your own personal character seeps through. My performance goal has always been to perform for the audience. People pay their hard earned money, and so I always desire to give all of myself in every single scene. — Paula Patton

I'm a physical person. That's why I like action movies. I like to get real into it all, and get real down and dirty. — Paula Patton

I try not to have too many opinions; I just marvel at the world we live in. — Paula Patton

Once I finished breastfeeding, my mom's like, 'Don't take that bra off ever!' Mom, thank you. I wore a one-size-too-small bra for like, two years. It helps ... ! They don't fall, you teach them, you teach them to come back! — Paula Patton

First off let me say, I've wanted to be an actress since I was a little girl. — Paula Patton

No matter how you look, we all hurt the same, cry the same, and feel joy the same. — Paula Patton