Top 60 Gabourey Sidibe Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Your body is your temple, it’s your home, and you must decorate it.”

— Gabourey Sidibe

2. “Just relax. When I was younger, I made myself the victim of catastrophic thinking. Anything that went wrong was the end of the world. But as I’ve gotten older, I’ve learned to stop myself and say, ‘Hey babe, calm down. Tomorrow there will be sun.’”

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3. “I wanted to be a psychologist. You know, I thought that’s what I’d be doing and it just goes to show you that, if you tell God your plans, He will laugh in your face.”

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4. “One day I decided that I was beautiful, and so I carried out my life as if I was a beautiful girl.”

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5. “I learned to love myself, because I sleep with myself every night and I wake up with myself every morning, and if I don’t like myself, there’s no reason to even live the life.”

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6. “In the seventh grade, I was about to leave wearing a jumper, when my mom said she could see my panty line. So I just wore stockings. That day I broke my ankle, and the EMS cut my tights off. I got a full cast with no stockings on and no panties.”

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7. “I live my life because I dare. I dare to show up when everyone else might hide their faces and hide their bodies in shame.”

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8. “I am the only consistent person in my life and so I better like myself, and I better love myself. And I really better know that I’m as beautiful as anyone else.”

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9. “I hate yoga so much. Like, if yoga was a person, I’d stab them.”

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10. “It doesn’t have anything to do with how the world perceives you. What matters is what you see.”

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11. “One day I had to sit down with myself and decide that I loved myself no matter what my body looked like and what other people thought about my body. I got tired of hating myself.”

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12. “I complain about my life. I used to complain about boys or not being able to drive or failing a test. Now I complain about boys, not being able to drive, and leaving home so much.”

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13. “I can flip my tongue over. Only one in 10,000 people can. I learned that at Ripley’s Believe It or Not!”

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14. “I love the way I look. I’m fine with it. And if my body changes, I’ll be fine with that.”

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15. “I try to stay off the Internet. Just because people hurt my feelings sometimes.”

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16. “Representation is very important to everyone, but especially to girls like me, and people like me, whether it be because of my body, because of my race, because of my skin color, because of my awkwardness or where I come from.”

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17. “All my life, people have made fun of the way I speak. I guess because a lot of my vocabulary is made up of things that other people say. I started making fun of them and imitating them and now that’s how I speak.”

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18. “I used to watch ‘Coming to America’ every day after school. I have full-on long-running inside jokes with friends and family about different scenes in that movie alone. Also, my brother and I loved ‘The Golden Child,’ so, yeah: I was a huge fan of Eddie Murphy growing up.”

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19. “Mo’Nique is so full of love. I’ve been describing her as the tree in ‘Pocahontas.’ She’s so wise and loving. She is just everything.”

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20. “It’s like prom night for Hollywood. I’m really proud of myself for being here.”

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21. “I have a birthmark on the inside of my left knee that resembles an upside-down sea horse.”

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22. “Well, I was a big fan of the book and therein a huge fan of the girl Precious. And so I felt like I knew this girl. I felt like I’d grown up alongside her. I felt like she was in my family. She was my friend and she was like people I didn’t want to be friends with.”

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23. “My beauty is dark chocolate and it’s delicious and it’s sweet.”

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24. “I would like to continue acting. I tell people I can’t go back to real life. I have to see how far I can go with it. I am serious about it, and I believe that it’s my calling. I think it’s what my life’s path is. It’s what God has given me. It’s what I was born to do. And so I must do it.”

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25. “I really want people to know that I am a normal girl. I’m not a superhero now. I’m not some sort of celebrity that doesn’t have feelings. I’m very, very normal.”

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26. “I don’t think my brand of self-confidence and self-assuredness can come from an outside source. It’s got to come from me.”

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27. “I have a nice smile, pretty lips, and big round cheeks. They help me look like a teenager.”

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28. “All we need to do is pay attention to ourselves and pay attention when somebody gives you a compliment based on something that you do naturally. Then that lets you know that that’s your talent. I mean, talents come in so many different sizes, so many different colors, so many different ways.”

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29. “People want to know everyone for a lot of different reasons. It doesn’t have to be anything as big as an Oscar nomination. It could be a brand new job. People see their opportunity. And, when you’re winning, everyone loves a winner.”

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30. “I hate Twitter. I think it’s disgusting. It’s ridiculous that you as a stranger can type something to me, and I see it. Technology has gone too far...”

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31. “Being an actress wasn’t a plan at all, so what’s happened to me is very strange. Life isn’t very normal, even though I’m still very much a normal girl. I ride the subway, I ride the bus, and all of that.”

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32. “It’s so weird to turn on a switch and be the role model for all women, for all African-Americans. That doesn’t happen that easily. It just doesn’t. And so I don’t act up in public and I don’t do anything weird – because my sisters are watching me, not because the world is watching me.”

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33. “I can’t go to sleep unless I’ve watched at least two episodes of American Dad on Hulu or iTunes. It just feels familiar. It’s like a lullaby.”

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34. “When it’s time to film and to actually take on the role of Precious, I felt an immense responsibility to do it justice.”

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35. “I’m really, really happy with what I do for a living. I mean, that’s what I consider work, like being on set, bringing a character to life and, you know, working with other actors and directors and stuff.”

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36. “I could have easily never worked again after ‘Precious.’ I could be back at my receptionist job and no one would be surprised, but I’m having a very crazy little career that no one thought would happen. Although that was never the plan.”

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37. “They try to paint the picture that I was this downtrodden, ugly girl who was unpopular in school and in life, and then I got this role and now I’m awesome. But the truth is that I’ve been awesome, and then I got this role.”

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38. “Hollywood, that whole industry, is a lot like a really small town. You bump into the same people all the time. I think Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon can be played with anyone and everyone in Hollywood.”

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39. “I don’t fixate on other people’s opinions of my body.”

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40. “Most of my life, I wanted to be a therapist, but then I just decided that I didn’t want to be in charge of giving people advice. I want to know everything there is to know about psychology. But a therapist? No.”

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41. “I don’t know any teenager with a positive attitude.”

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42. “Being an actor is wonderful and it’s a lot of fun, but eventually you look old and you can’t fit this or that. It’s important to have other skills, be able to do other things, and to really learn how this business works and what it thrives on.”

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43. “I’m really, really interested in the job of acting. I can really care less about being famous. I’m more about the work, and ‘The Big C’ was amazing, so I wanted to be a part of it.”

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44. “I’m not a big fan of doing what my mother wants me to do, like any daughter.”

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45. “I was born to stand out. I don’t care whether or not people will find me attractive on screen. That’s not why I became an actor. I know that more and more with each new role.”

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46. “I didn’t want to be an actress at all, or famous even. I certainly enjoy acting now, absolutely. Time will tell whether or not I enjoy fame.”

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47. “I think people look at me and don’t expect much. Even though, I expect a whole lot.”

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48. “I’ve grown up with girls that are like Precious. I’ve grown up with people that are like everyone that I read about in that book. And so years later, when I was given the role, I just felt a huge responsibility to show the reality of that situation and to show that we’re not making it up.”

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49. “My Plan A was to be a psychologist. I thought I would be a receptionist. I’m always middle of the road and very normal. I’ve always wanted a normal life, and this is what I got.”

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50. “The best thing about having my very first audition lead me to an Oscar nomination means that I don’t have to struggle the rest of my career to be nominated for an Oscar, to prove that I’m a great actress, because I’ve already done it. Now I can do things that just make me happy.”

— Gabourey Sidibe