Gabrielle Union Quotes

• 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

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• 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

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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.

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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.

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  Tags in Career, Roles

• 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.

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  Tags in Kind, Person

• 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.

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• 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!

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• 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!’

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  Tags in Popular

• 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

  Topics in America

• 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.

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  Tags in Riding

• 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.

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  Topics in Sports

  Tags in Men

• 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.

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  Tags in Role, Specifications

• 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.

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  Tags in Home, Bed

• 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.

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  Tags in Right

• 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.

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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.

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  Tags in Households

• 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.

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  Tags in Significant

• 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.

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  Tags in Laugh

• 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!

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  Tags in Break

• 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.

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  Tags in Afraid

Gabrielle Union (70)

Birth:	29th October, 1972
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress

About

Gabrielle Union was born in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. She is an American actress. She began her career in 1990s, appearing on television sitcoms, before landing supporting roles in teen comedy films She's All That and 10 Things I Hate About You. Her breakthrough role was in the 2000 teen comedy film Bring It On, after which she was female lead in the short-lived CBS medical drama series City of Angels later that year. She is best known for her performances in the romantic comedy films The Brothers, Deliver Us from Eva, Daddy's Little Girls, Think Like a Man, and Think Like a Man Too. In 2013, she began starring as lead character in the BET drama series, Being Mary Jane, for which she has received critical acclaim and NAACP Image Award.

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