Gabourey Sidibe famous quotes

Personally, it’s rude. You got three kids with the lady, she just did 17 years for you and you’re not gonna leave your...whatever!
-- Gabourey Sidibe

#Kids #Years #Rude

If I hadn't been told I was garbage, I wouldn't have learned how to show people I'm talented. And if everyone had always laughed at my jokes, I wouldn't have figured out how to be so funny. If they hadn't told me I was ugly, I never would have searched for my beauty. And if they hadn't tried to break me down, I wouldn't know that I'm unbreakable.
-- Gabourey Sidibe

#People #Ugly #Unbreakable

People always ask me, 'You have so much confidence. Where did that come from?'. It came from me. One day I decided that I was beautiful, and so I carried out my life as if I was a beautiful girl. I wear colors that I really like, I wear makeup that makes me feel pretty, and it really helps. It doesn't have anything to do with how the world perceives you. What matters is what you see.
-- Gabourey Sidibe

#Beautiful #Girl #Powerful

I was born to stand out. I don't care whether or not people will find me attractive on screen. That's not why I became an actor. I know that more and more with each new role.
-- Gabourey Sidibe

#People #Roles #Actors

I learned to love myself, because I sleep with myself every night and I wake up with myself every morning, and if I don't like myself, there's no reason to even live the life.
-- Gabourey Sidibe

#Morning #Live Life #Sleep

Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it.
-- Gabourey Sidibe

#Home #Body #Temples

I live my life because I dare. I dare to show up when everyone else might hide their faces and hide their bodies in shame.
-- Gabourey Sidibe

#Body #Might #Faces

It's like prom night for Hollywood. I'm really proud of myself for being here.
-- Gabourey Sidibe

#Night #Hollywood #Proud

I don't fixate on other people's opinions of my body.
-- Gabourey Sidibe

#People #Body #Opinion

I can flip my tongue over. Only one in 10,000 people can. I learned that at Ripley's Believe It or Not!
-- Gabourey Sidibe

#Believe #People #Tongue

I love the way I look. I'm fine with it. And if my body changes, I'll be fine with that.
-- Gabourey Sidibe

#Looks #Body #Way

I think people look at me and don't expect much. Even though, I expect a whole lot.
-- Gabourey Sidibe

#Thinking #People #Looks

When it's time to film and to actually take on the role of Precious, I felt an immense responsibility to do it justice.
-- Gabourey Sidibe

#Responsibility #Justice #Roles

I certainly used to wish that I was skinny, lighter-skinned, with long, pretty hair. But only because I used to get made fun of for being the absolute opposite. I didn't see all of that stuff as the American Dream. I just wanted to look normal. Now that I'm older, I really do feel like I am a beautiful girl.
-- Gabourey Sidibe

#Beautiful #Girl #Dream

I could have easily never worked again after 'Precious.' I could be back at my receptionist job and no one would be surprised, but I'm having a very crazy little career that no one thought would happen. Although that was never the plan.
-- Gabourey Sidibe

#Jobs #Crazy #Careers

All my life, people have made fun of the way I speak. I guess because a lot of my vocabulary is made up of things that other people say. I started making fun of them and imitating them and now that's how I speak.
-- Gabourey Sidibe

#Fun #Vocabulary #People

Being an actress wasn't a plan at all, so what's happened to me is very strange. Life isn't very normal, even though I'm still very much a normal girl. I ride the subway, I ride the bus, and all of that.
-- Gabourey Sidibe

#Girl #Subway #Actresses

Hollywood, that whole industry, is a lot like a really small town. You bump into the same people all the time. I think Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon can be played with anyone and everyone in Hollywood.
-- Gabourey Sidibe

#Thinking #People #Hollywood

I'm really, really interested in the job of acting. I can really care less about being famous. I'm more about the work, and 'The Big C' was amazing, so I wanted to be a part of it.
-- Gabourey Sidibe

#Jobs #Acting #Care

Mo'Nique is so full of love. I've been describing her as the tree in 'Pocahontas.' She's so wise and loving. She is just everything.
-- Gabourey Sidibe

#Wise #Tree

I didn't want to be an actress at all, or famous even. I certainly enjoy acting now, absolutely. Time will tell whether or not I enjoy fame.
-- Gabourey Sidibe

#Acting #Want #Actresses

I'm not a big fan of doing what my mother wants me to do, like any daughter.
-- Gabourey Sidibe

#Daughter #Mother #Fans

It doesn't have anything to do with how the world perceives you. What matters is what you see.
-- Gabourey Sidibe

#What Matters #Perfect #World

I hate yoga so much. Like, if yoga was a person, I'd stab them.
-- Gabourey Sidibe

#Hate #Yoga #I Hate

If they hadn’t tried to break me down, I wouldn’t know that I’m unbreakable.
-- Gabourey Sidibe

#Unbreakable #Break

One day I decided that I was beautiful, and so I carried out my life as if I was a beautiful girl.
-- Gabourey Sidibe

#Beautiful #Girl #Beautiful Girl

My beauty is dark chocolate and it's delicious and it's sweet.
-- Gabourey Sidibe

#Sweet #Dark #Chocolate

I am the only consistent person in my life and so I better like myself, and I better love myself. And I really better know that I'm as beautiful as anyone else.
-- Gabourey Sidibe

#Beautiful #Love Myself #Consistent

They try to paint the picture that I was this downtrodden, ugly girl who was unpopular in school and in life, and then I got this role and now I’m awesome. But the truth is that I’ve been awesome, and then I got this role.
-- Gabourey Sidibe

#Girl #School #Trying

I show up because I’m an asshole, and I want to have a good time.
-- Gabourey Sidibe

#Want #Good Times #Having A Good Time

I have a nice smile, pretty lips, and big round cheeks. They help me look like a teenager.
-- Gabourey Sidibe

#Nice #Teenager #Looks

I have a birthmark on the inside of my left knee that resembles an upside-down sea horse.
-- Gabourey Sidibe

#Horse #Sea #Knees

One day I had to sit down with myself and decide that I loved myself no matter what my body looked like and what other people thought about my body. I got tired of hating myself.
-- Gabourey Sidibe

#Beauty #Hate #Tired

I used to watch 'Coming to America' every day after school. I have full-on long-running inside jokes with friends and family about different scenes in that movie alone. Also, my brother and I loved 'The Golden Child,' so, yeah: I was a huge fan of Eddie Murphy growing up.
-- Gabourey Sidibe

#Running #Brother #Children

Just relax. When I was younger, I made myself the victim of catastrophic thinking. Anything that went wrong was the end of the world. But as I've gotten older, I've learned to stop myself and say, 'Hey babe, calm down. Tomorrow there will be sun.'
-- Gabourey Sidibe

#Thinking #Relax #Sun