Top 44 Gabrielle Union Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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

My mom is painfully sweet; she’s from Nebraska.

People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.

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.

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

There’s no such thing as a healthy tan, and that’s what people need to understand.

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.

You have to be resilient.

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.

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!’

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.

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

Boys are so much drama.

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

I like meat and carbohydrates.

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.

Before I got married, I dated the gamut.

Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.

Reality TV looks more like America than movies do.

In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you’ve got osteoporosis.

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

There’s an inherent idea that if a Black executive producer and a Black director are going to do a movie based on a Black writer’s book that everybody is going to be Black.

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

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.

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.

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!

I’m not the type to lay out on the beach, but I do love to work out outside, and that can really take a toll on your skin!

I’ve dated a number of ‘mama’s boys.’

I’m not sensitive, I’m not a weepy person.

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.

My friends are very opinionated about the people I date.

I don’t get enough sleep so I always have undereye bags.

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.

Just like I find men who talk sports who don’t really know sports annoying, I think men might find women who don’t really have a true passion and knowledge of sports maybe not so attractive.

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.

I drink a gallon of water a day.

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.

I love horses.

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.

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.