Gabrielle Union famous quotes

You know what lasts longer than beauty? Being smart.
-- Gabrielle Union

#Smart #Lasts #Being Smart

If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn't allow that person to stay in my world.
-- Gabrielle Union

#World #Persons #Decency

We all have to let go of the Prince Charming complex and realize he doesn't necessarily exist in the package we assume he'll come in.
-- Gabrielle Union

#Letting Go #Assuming #Realizing

When someone who loves and cares about me compliments me, I feel more glamorous than when the flashbulbs are going off on the red carpet.
-- Gabrielle Union

#Care #Red #Compliment

I'm not going to change the world overnight. It's one person at a time, and hopefully they're people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting.
-- Gabrielle Union

#Change #People #Roles

I drink a gallon of water a day.
-- Gabrielle Union

#Water #Drink #Gallons

We give a lot of others significance in our lives even when they don't deserve it. It doesn't matter if they're family or if you've known them forever. If they're not good for you, they've got to go.
-- Gabrielle Union

#Giving #Forever #Matter

I don't function well in chaos, whether it be my sheets or the dishwasher.
-- Gabrielle Union

#Chaos #Dishwashers #Sheets

I don't get enough sleep so I always have undereye bags.
-- Gabrielle Union

#Sleep #Enough Sleep #Bags

I just kind of assumed that you do a movie and then you leave and you hop onto the next thing. I never thought that people are actually buddies.
-- Gabrielle Union

#People #Next #Kind

I like directors who have worked as actors. They know the experience.
-- Gabrielle Union

#Directors #Actors

I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.
-- Gabrielle Union

#Basketball #Softball #Soccer

I date, but the person I date most is myself, unfortunately.
-- Gabrielle Union

#Persons

Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
-- Gabrielle Union

#Beauty #African American #Hollywood

I think if we open ourselves to all different kinds of men and all groups, we find a lot more opportunities to love.
-- Gabrielle Union

#Opportunity #Men #Thinking

I've been trying to get cast as a lesbian for years.
-- Gabrielle Union

#Years #Trying #Casts

But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.
-- Gabrielle Union

#Giving #Comedy #Julia

I've dated a number of 'mama's boys.'
-- Gabrielle Union

#Boys #Numbers

A couple of my friends started having babies, and I thought, 'Maybe one day, with the right guy.' I have to find the guy first.
-- Gabrielle Union

#Baby #Couple #Guy

Before I got married, I dated the gamut.
-- Gabrielle Union

#Married

I love TV. I love the stability of it.
-- Gabrielle Union

#Tvs #Stability

I just thought acting would be something to help out with my student loans, but my first year as an actress, I made more money than my parents. That's when I realized it could turn into a career. After that, I put everything I had into it.
-- Gabrielle Union

#Years #Careers #Parent

In Hollywood, you play a mom, and the next thing you know, you're on 'The Golden Girls.' They age you so fast.
-- Gabrielle Union

#Girl #Mom #Play

All minorities think they're immune, but we're absolutely part of the one in five that gets skin cancer! It's a myth, and myths are meant to be debunked!
-- Gabrielle Union

#Cancer #Thinking #Skins

As a newly married person, as much as I would love for my husband to buy into the 'my way or the highway' philosophy, you realize it's all about compromising and finding some sort of middle ground that everyone can live with.
-- Gabrielle Union

#Husband #Philosophy #Way

It's easy to pretend 'to be fierce and fearless because living your truth takes real courage. Real fearless and fierce women admit mistakes and they work to correct them. We stand up and we use our voices for things other than self promotion. We don't stand by and let racism and sexism and homophobia run rapid on our watch. Real fearless and fierce women complement other women and we recognize and embrace that their shine in no way diminishes our light and that it actually makes our light shine brighter.
-- Gabrielle Union

#Running #Real #Mistake

Sometimes it's not even a role that's specifically written for a woman. It could be a role written for a white man or Asian man, or Latino. If it's something that I feel I could do well, I go after it. Especially if it's nothing that has to be gender or race specific, I'm all over it.
-- Gabrielle Union

#Men #Race #White

After Halle Berry does her films and Queen Latifah does her films, it's left to all the black, Latino and Asian actresses to fight over a couple of roles. I opted for some TV. There's just not a ton of work in film.
-- Gabrielle Union

#Queens #Couple #Fighting

I can't just say one time of the year I'm going to do something different. I have to commit to a lifestyle behavioral change and just try to be a little bit better today than I was yesterday.
-- Gabrielle Union

#Years #Yesterday #Trying

In my career, there have been roles I haven't taken because someone involved with the project gave me a bad vibe. I don't care how much money is on the table: No job is worth feeling uneasy every day.
-- Gabrielle Union

#Jobs #Taken #Careers

When you want a break from dogs, and you take them to the kennel to the stars, no one thinks you're a bad pet owner. But when you have kids, you can't drop them off for three weeks without someone calling Child Protective Services!
-- Gabrielle Union

#Dog #Stars #Children

I was always in the popular crowd, but I really had atrocious teeth. I was encouraged to 'do well in school, 'cause no one's going to marry you!'
-- Gabrielle Union

#School #Teeth #Crowds

I love romantic comedies. They're for me the easiest thing to do and the most natural to do. There's nothing natural about holding an uzi hanging out of a moving van shooting at people. That's not second nature to me, thank God.
-- Gabrielle Union

#Moving #Romantic Love #People

If we can have drones, we can have brown people on TV, and the world won't end! We need to catch up. We are painfully behind.
-- Gabrielle Union

#People #World #Tvs

Drama can feel like therapy whereas comedy feels like there's been a pressure and a weight lifted off of you.
-- Gabrielle Union

#Drama #Weight #Pressure

The guys I tended to date, you know, didn't necessarily have it altogether but I had a great time.
-- Gabrielle Union

#Guy #Had A Great Time

I think I'm drawn to more villain-type characters, because it's so cool to get to say all the things you want to say. In Hollywood, you get to this position where you have to bite your tongue so much. You take all your experiences of not being able to say what you really want to say, and channel that through your character.
-- Gabrielle Union

#Character #Thinking #Hollywood

I think there's a lot of things that occur within the African-American community, that we would prefer to stay within the African-American community - that we get a little nervous when you start having scenes or dialogue that we know is going to be viewed and heard on a national or global scale.
-- Gabrielle Union

#Thinking #Community #African American

Right now, I don't have the same urges as other women when they see a baby. When I see children, I see responsibilities, which I don't think I'm quite ready for. I feel the same about puppies. They're cute for a second, but there's a lot of responsibility involved.
-- Gabrielle Union

#Cute #Baby #Children

I want to be Miss USA or Miss America. I would bring the trophy back to Nebraska. My interests are agriculture and corn. Hey, I'm just riding this train as long as I can. As long as I'm having fun, I'll do it. When it stops being fun, I'll try something else.
-- Gabrielle Union

#Fun #Usa #Agriculture

I had to learn - since I'm divorced now and everyone is like, 'Oh my God, you're single, what's going on?' - that if I don't like to spend time with myself, how can I ask someone else to enjoy spending time with me? I'm getting to learn how to enjoy my solitude and have a good time.
-- Gabrielle Union

#Solitude #Good Times #Spending Time

I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
-- Gabrielle Union

#Football #Player #Wife

I'm the kind of person whose clothes are all hung up and color-coordinated, to the point where my whites don't touch my creams.
-- Gabrielle Union

#Color #Clothes #Kind

If my real life was half as exciting as what is reported, I would be thrilled.
-- Gabrielle Union

#Real #Would Be #Half

In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.
-- Gabrielle Union

#Mom #Play #Osteoporosis

My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
-- Gabrielle Union

#Mom #Sweet #Nebraska

Reality TV looks more like America than movies do.
-- Gabrielle Union

#Reality #America #Looks

The black community in Hollywood is very small and close-knit. Everyone has a common goal: to make a two-hour movie in 30 days.
-- Gabrielle Union

#Two #Goal #Community

We don't consider black, urban films as 'indies,' though many of them are shot for under $10 million which is kind of the definition of an indie.
-- Gabrielle Union

#Black #Definitions #Urban

You have to be resilient.
-- Gabrielle Union

#Resilient

You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night.
-- Gabrielle Union

#Nice #Home #Night

I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.
-- Gabrielle Union

#People #I Realized

Drama can feel like therapy whereas comedy feels like there's been a pressure and a weight lifted off of you. You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.
-- Gabrielle Union

#Drama #Home #Light

Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.
-- Gabrielle Union

#Race #Hollywood #Hot

Boys are so much drama.
-- Gabrielle Union

#Drama #Boys