Patricia Velasquez

If there is one creature that represents my essence, it's butterflies.

— Patricia Velasquez

Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain.

— Patricia Velasquez

If I need something, even a pair of socks, my assistant has to get them for me.

— Patricia Velasquez

Always work hard, be honest, and be proud of who you are.

— Patricia Velasquez

I live in New York and I was only there for 2 weeks all last year.

— Patricia Velasquez

Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.

— Patricia Velasquez

I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.

— Patricia Velasquez

I have no doubt I was someone very interesting in a past life.

— Patricia Velasquez

I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.

— Patricia Velasquez

I think if I could have a boyfriend like my brothers I'd be really happy. But without the brother thing.

— Patricia Velasquez

OK, I've been very wild, but I've never really been the sort of person who goes that crazy!

— Patricia Velasquez

It is possible to have second chances. When I thought everything was lost, when I reached bottom and things didn't go my…

— Patricia Velasquez

There was a time when I used to live in Spain that it went really crazy with drugs and stuff like that.

— Patricia Velasquez

I try to go through it [emotional pain]; understanding is going to take me to a better place. And I do hot…

— Patricia Velasquez

You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.

— Patricia Velasquez

I began dancing when I was just 5, and I never really wanted to become an actress because its what every other…

— Patricia Velasquez

For me, love is a pure, unconditional, nonjudgmental feeling that I feel towards some people and some parts of nature. Most of…

— Patricia Velasquez

Kids suffering, with no opportunities for lack of having their basic human needs [met], like food, health, and education, but at the…

— Patricia Velasquez

Many years ago, I started a foundation [Wayuu Taya Foundation] to help improve the life of Latin American indigenous people, providing them…

— Patricia Velasquez

I do hot yoga. I try to keep one hour a day where I have space to reflect and meditate and take…

— Patricia Velasquez

I also feel that if you were evil, then next time around you would be very good.

— Patricia Velasquez

It takes one person to give you a big chance.

— Patricia Velasquez

Clothes, thank God I can get them from designers.

— Patricia Velasquez

People say many things, but at the end of the day people can say what they want.

— Patricia Velasquez

The universe only gives you what you can handle, so trust that whatever is happening to you is exactly what you need.…

— Patricia Velasquez

The universe always gives you what you need to grow into the person you are destined to become.

— Patricia Velasquez

So struggling for work here has been very good for me, but it's also been very hard to handle rejection.

— Patricia Velasquez

Anything that propels me to create, like [my book, Straight Walk]. It kept me inspired for almost four years.

— Patricia Velasquez