Paula Patton Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I love cola.

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.

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

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

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.

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