Gabrielle Union Quotes

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

Family, Good, Give

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

Respect, Someone, Person

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

Change, Time, Today

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

Someone, Off, Red

A lot of women seem to think the way to ingratiate themselves is to put down other women or backstab. That's the quickest way to be eliminated from my life - try that with me, and you're out.
Gabrielle Union

Life, Women, Down

Boys are so much drama.
Gabrielle Union

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, Time, Power

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

Trying, Lesbian, Cast

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

Number, Mama, Dated

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

Realize, Exist, Complex

You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.
Gabrielle Union

Best, Fear, Failure

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

Thought, Friends, Find

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

Work, Fight, Black

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, Five, Skin

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

Love, Husband, Live

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

Before, Married, Dated

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

Give, Smiling, Julia

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

Work, Home, Happy

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

Beauty, American, Needs

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

Care, Hot, Race

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

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

Whether, Chaos, Function

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

Sleep, Enough, Bags

I drink a gallon of water a day.
Gabrielle Union

Water, Drink, Gallon

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

Time, Good, God

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Nationality: American

Born: October 29, 1972

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