Latest Paula Patton Quotes from Interviews

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• 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

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Moving, Heart, Home

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Children, Healthy, Important

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Thinking, Step Up, Unbelievable

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Photography, Tragedy, Different

  Source: www.esquire.com

• 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

  People, Busy, Cell Phone

  Source: www.esquire.com

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

  Paula Patton

  People, I Realized, Profession

  Source: www.esquire.com

• The deeper you dig, the bigger the possibility that something could happen.

  Paula Patton

  Possibility

  Source: www.esquire.com

• 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

  Giving, Sticks, Want

  Source: collider.com

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

  Paula Patton

  Hurt, Joy, Looks

  Source: collider.com

• You just can't take yourself too seriously, especially in comedy.

  Paula Patton

  Comedy

  Source: collider.com

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

  Paula Patton

  Thinking, Body, Way

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Jobs, People, Appreciate

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Real, Dirty, Down And

  Source: collider.com

• You just can't take yourself too seriously, especially in comedy. You shouldn't try to be funny, but you should try to be as honest as possible. The extreme end of honesty is usually what's funny. That's your job [as an actor]. You just have to let people see it.

  Paula Patton

  Jobs, Honesty, People

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Purpose, Comedy, Easy

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Character, Goal, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• 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

  Character, Thinking, Trying

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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

  Paula Patton

  Comedy, Telling The Truth, Supposed To Be

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• 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

  People, Eating Disorder, Looks

  "Kiefer Sutherland, Paula Patton and Alexandre Aja Reflect Through Mirrors!". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. August 15, 2008.

• 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

  Healthy, Burgers, Juicy

  Source: www.glamour.com