You just can't take yourself too seriously, especially in comedy. Paula Patton More Quotes by Paula Patton More Quotes From Paula Patton No matter how you look, we all hurt the same, cry the same, and feel joy the same. Paula Patton hurt joy looks 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 juicy burgers healthy The older I get, the more I accept and appreciate myself. Paula Patton appreciate accepting My job, as an actor, is to entertain people. My contribution to society is to be a respite from everyday life. People go home and watch television or they go to the movies, and they get to escape their reality. But if I can do entertainment that also maybe can educate people, educate myself, move people's hearts and minds, in some way, and bring light to some injustice, that's when entertainment is at its best. And if somebody wants to get more involved in a socially active way, that's when you've done the thing that I've always wanted to be a part of. Paula Patton home heart moving If you have the capacity to love, you have the capacity to love anyone. Paula Patton capacity-to-love capacity love-you We don't really know the ultimate outcome of our lives. All we can say is, "Fate has brought me thus far. This is where my life is right now, and I can either choose to stay here, or I can make a different turn that will take me somewhere else." I certainly am an advocate of taking a jump off the tallest mountain and just hoping a net appears. More often than not, when you take those leaps of faith, something really incredible happens. It might just take some time. You might take a long, hard journey, but the end of it is usually a great one, I find. Paula Patton fate journey long In my own life, there's no amount of success or money that's more important than your child being healthy and happy. There's nothing that can put a band-aid on that. There's nothing more valuable, to me, than your child. Paula Patton healthy important children Before, if your phone was busy, your phone was busy. You had no cell phone. Now people work 24/7, their BlackBerry keeps them busy, and e-mail - and when do they have time for other pursuits? When do they have time to be politically active? Paula Patton cell-phone busy people The deeper you dig, the bigger the possibility that something could happen. Paula Patton possibility I'm black because that's the way the world sees me. Paula Patton black way world 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 goal character people I realized that what we do as professions affects how we act as people, big-time. Paula Patton i-realized profession people When people have eating disorders, they can't actually see what they truly look like because they're so clouded with their emotions. Paula Patton eating-disorder people looks I try not to have too many opinions; I just marvel at the world we live in. Paula Patton opinion trying world I think the age we're living in is starting to get scary. Paula Patton scary age thinking 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. Paula Patton different photography tragedy 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 trying character thinking Sometimes I do yoga, sometimes it's kickboxing, sometimes it's weight training, sometimes it's Pilates. Paula Patton training yoga weight 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 color light people The older I get, the more I'm surprised with life. Things don't end up the way you think they will. Unbelievable and unimaginable things do happen, and then you figure out if you'll be able to step up to the plate or not. Paula Patton step-up unbelievable thinking
