PATRICIA VELASQUEZ

I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.

I have no doubt I was someone very interesting in a past life.

Clothes, thank God I can get them from designers.

Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain.

There was a time when I used to live in Spain that it went really crazy with drugs and stuff like that.

Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.

I think if I could have a boyfriend like my brothers I'd be really happy. But without the brother thing.

If there is one creature that represents my essence, it's butterflies.

I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.

So struggling for work here has been very good for me, but it's also been very hard to handle rejection.

I live in New York and I was only there for 2 weeks all last year.

Always work hard, be honest, and be proud of who you are.

If I need something, even a pair of socks, my assistant has to get them for me.

OK, I've been very wild, but I've never really been the sort of person who goes that crazy!

It takes one person to give you a big chance.

You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.

It is possible to have second chances. When I thought everything was lost, when I reached bottom and things didn't go my way, the universe gave me a second chance.

The universe only gives you what you can handle, so trust that whatever is happening to you is exactly what you need. Just trust. Have certainty!

Kids suffering, with no opportunities for lack of having their basic human needs [met], like food, health, and education, but at the same time, [it] motivates me to keep fighting for them, for the ones less fortunate.

The universe always gives you what you need to grow into the person you are destined to become.

I do hot yoga. I try to keep one hour a day where I have space to reflect and meditate and take care of me and what is going on inside. This way, I can be a better person to be around.

For me, love is a pure, unconditional, nonjudgmental feeling that I feel towards some people and some parts of nature. Most of us love, but the purest love is the one where we take ego out of the equation, and that is the hard part of love, keeping ego aside.

Many years ago, I started a foundation [Wayuu Taya Foundation] to help improve the life of Latin American indigenous people, providing them with food, medical attention, education, and also focusing on sustainability.

I try to go through it [emotional pain]; understanding is going to take me to a better place. And I do hot yoga.

Anything that propels me to create, like [my book, Straight Walk]. It kept me inspired for almost four years.