Quotes by Gabrielle Union - Page 2

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 / Actress
Cancer
Immune
Meant To Be
Minorities
Myth
Skins
Thinking
Skin
Meant
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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 / Actress
Chicks
Hollywood
Hot
Hottest
Race
Chick
Demographic
Package
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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.
Gabrielle Union / Actress
Inherent
Executive
Executive Producer
Producer
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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 / Actress
Being The Best
Losing
Best Failure Fear
Helps
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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. Maybe I'll open up a chain of Popeye's Chicken.
Gabrielle Union / Actress
Having Fun
Popeye
Riding
Chain
Chicken
Something Else
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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.
Gabrielle Union / Actress
Annoying
Attractive
Knowledge Men Women
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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 / Actress
Commit
Lifestyle
One Time
Trying
Years
Yesterday
Time Change Today
Behavioral
Change Time Today
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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 / Actress
Life Women Me
Eliminated
Quickest Way
Seem
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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 / Actress
Deserve
Forever
Giving
Matter
Our Lives
Significance
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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 / Actress
Jobs
Careers
Don't Care
Feelings
Roles
Taken
Uneasy
Money Me Day
Project
How Much Money
Table
Vibe
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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 / Actress
Change
Smile
Casting
Embrace
Hopefully
People
Position Of Power
Roles
Person
Time Change Power
Those
Change The World
Change Time Power
Colorblind
Help
Help People
Overnight
Positions
Truly
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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 / Actress
Queens
Black
Couple
Fighting
Latino
Berry
Halle
Halle Berry
Queen
Ton
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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 / Actress
Escapism
Pure
Sitting
All Day
Go Home
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Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.
Gabrielle Union / Actress
Active
African American
Motive
Participation
Households
Ulterior
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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 / Actress
Husband
Married
Middle
Middle Ground
Philosophy
Way
Buy
Compromising
Finding
Highway
Newly
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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 / Actress
Nature
Moving
Romantic Love
Shooting
Thank God
Love Nature God
Comedies
Easiest
Easiest Thing
Holding
Romantic Comedies
Second Nature
Thank
Van
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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 / Actress
Pet
Calling
Children
Dog
Protective
Stars
Weeks
Dogs
Drop
Owner
Services
Thinks
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I've lost a lot. I've lost money, and my reputation has taken a hit for taking the high road to protect my dignity, to protect children, and for other good causes. But I don't think there's ever too steep a price for doing the right thing.
Gabrielle Union / Actress
Children
Taken
Thinking
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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 / Actress
Careers
Parent
Years
Loans
Student Loans
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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 / Actress
Agriculture
Corn
Fun
Having Fun
Hey
Nebraska
Riding
Usa
Miss
Interests
Something Else
Trophy
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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 / Actress
Cute
Smile
Baby
Children
Responsibility
Urges
Puppies
Responsibilities
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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 / Actress
Divorced
Good Times
Solitude
Spending
Spending Time
God Time Good
Oh My God
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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 / Actress
Men
Latino
Over It
Race
White Man
Specifically
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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 / Actress
African American
Community
Dialogue
Nervous
Thinking
African-American Community
Scale
Prefer
Occur
Viewed
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I'm competing with everyone, but it's okay because they're not aware. I can't shut that impulse off. And I'm glad, because that impulse keeps me on the treadmill. If I didn't have it, I would be like, "Great! Ten minutes! I'm good." But if I'm competing, I can see what level someone's on and I can top it.
Gabrielle Union / Actress
Competing
Impulse
Okay
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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 / Actress
Character
Hollywood
Thinking
Tongue
Bite
Channel
Drawn
Experiences
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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 / Actress
Home
Drama
Escapism
Light
Pure
Sitting
Therapy
Weight
All Day
Go Home
Lifted
Whereas
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I had been living the life that society tends to dictate for women of a certain age. You marry the person who asks you, even though he may or may not be the best one for you. Around the time that I got divorced, I had an epiphany that there is no blue ribbon or gold medal for living someone else's life, for fulfilling someone else's dreams. It's doesn't make you happy. You just end up with a life that's not yours.
Gabrielle Union / Actress
Death
Dream
Age
Blue
Live Life
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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 / Actress
Running
Mistake
Real
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