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 PattonWhen people have eating disorders, they can't actually see what they truly look like because they're so clouded with their emotions.
Paula PattonI 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 PattonA 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