Quotes By Gabrielle Union

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!'

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.

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

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

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.

My friends are very opinionated about the people I date.

In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.

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

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 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.

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

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'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 drink a gallon of water a day.

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.

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.

Boys are so much drama.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

I like meat and carbohydrates.

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

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.

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