Paula Patton

My job, as an actor, is to entertain people. My contribution to society is to be a respite from everyday life. People…

— Paula Patton

I feel like movies should stick to a genre and give the audience what they want, and then surprise them with the…

— Paula Patton

Before, if your phone was busy, your phone was busy. You had no cell phone. Now people work 24/7, their BlackBerry keeps…

— Paula Patton

We don't really know the ultimate outcome of our lives. All we can say is, "Fate has brought me thus far. This…

— Paula Patton

I always like the physical comedy because I actually do a lot of it in my own life, but not on purpose.…

— 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…

— Paula Patton

I feel like movies should stick to a genre and give the audience what they want, and then surprise them with the…

— Paula Patton

I think what my 42 years of life has given me is just how important it is to live your own life.

— Paula Patton

For me, anything that you take on, you want to be challenged. That's what makes the job exciting.

— Paula Patton

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

— Paula Patton

As a little girl I always dreamed of having a cosmetics contract, which was the cherry on top of 'making it' in…

— 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…

— Paula Patton

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

— Paula Patton

There's one person that you would give up your life for, and that's your child.

— 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…

— 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

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…

— Paula Patton

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

I don't know, I don't enjoy the business bit of it at all. Anything that's not the acting. It's all sort of…

— Paula Patton

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

— Paula Patton

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

— Paula Patton

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

— Paula Patton

I realized that what we do as professions affects how we act as people, big-time.

— Paula Patton

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

— Paula Patton