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Paula Patton Biography

Paula Maxine Patton (born December 5, 1975) is an American actress. Patton made her film debut in the 2005 comedy film Hitch and starred in Warcraft (2016), based on the game series of the same name. Patton has also been the female lead in Déjà Vu (2006), Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011), and 2 Guns (2013) and Precious (2009).

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

Cry, Hurt, Joy, Looks, Matter

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.

Fate, Journey, Long, Take, Stay

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.

Children, Healthy, Important, Life, Nothing, Success

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

Capacity, Capacity To Love, Love, Love You

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.

Appreciate, Job, Jobs, Money, People, Watch

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

Body, Think, Thinking, Way

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.

Comedy, Different, Movie, Photography, Tragedy

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?

Active, Busy, Cell, Cell Phone, People, Phone

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

Becoming, Best Things, Mother, Thing

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

Accept, Accepting, Appreciate, Older

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.

Movie, People, Photography, Screenplay, Two

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.

Actually, Comedy, Easy, Planet, Purpose

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

Live, Marvel, Opinion, Opinions, Trying, World

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.

Happen, Life, Step Up, Things, Thinking, Unbelievable

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.

Audience, Character, Likeable, Make, Thinking, Trying

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

Age, Scary, Starting, Thinking

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

Act, Affects, I Realized, People, Profession

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.

Heart, Home, Light, Moving, Thing, Watch

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

Comedy, Supposed, Supposed To Be, Tell, Telling The Truth, Truth

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.

Actors, Color, Light, Making, Network, People

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