Paula Patton Quotes

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

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#2. I'm black because that's the way the world sees me.

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#3. 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.

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

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

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

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#7. 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.

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#8. 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.

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

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

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

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#12. 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.

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#13. 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!

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#14. 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.

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

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

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#17. 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.

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#18. If you have the capacity to love, you have the capacity to love anyone.

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#19. 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.

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#20. I think the age we're living in is starting to get scary.

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

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#22. If you're an actress and even one person knows your name, you're lucky.

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