Top 70 Gabrielle Union Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You have to be resilient.”

— Gabrielle Union

2. “If you prioritize yourself, you are going to save yourself.”

— Gabrielle Union

3. “You know what lasts longer than beauty? Being smart.”

— Gabrielle Union

4. “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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5. “I drink a gallon of water a day.”

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6. “Here’s to us being afraid and doing it anyway.”

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

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8. “An empress does not concern herself with the antics of fools.”

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9. “I’ve been trying to get cast as a lesbian for years.”

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10. “If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn’t allow that person to stay in my world.”

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11. “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.”

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12. “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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13. “Reality TV looks more like America than movies do.”

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14. “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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15. “A couple of my friends started having babies, and I thought, ‘Maybe one day, with the right guy.’ I have to find the guy first.”

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16. “If we can have drones, we can have brown people on TV, and the world won’t end! We need to catch up. We are painfully behind.”

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17. “Carrie Fisher had a line I love about why she and Paul Simon ended their marriage: “Things were getting worse faster than we could lower our standards.”

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18. “Don’t save your best for when you think the material calls for it. Always bring your full potential to every take, and be on top of your job, or they will replace you.”

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19. “You can love what you see in the mirror, but you can’t self-esteem your way out of the way the world treats you.”

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20. “You were fly, dope, and amazing from birth,” I would tell that girl now. “From the second you took your first breath, you were worthwhile and valid. And I’m sorry you had to wait so long to learn that for yourself.”

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21. “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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22. “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.”

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23. “You’re gonna have to be bigger, badder, better, just to be considered equal. You’re gonna have to do twice as much work and you’re not going to get any credit.”

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24. “Drama can feel like therapy whereas comedy feels like there’s been a pressure and a weight lifted off of you.”

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25. “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.”

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26. “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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27. “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.”

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28. “What positive happened in your life because you tore this woman down?” she asked. “And, by the way, you showed exactly how much power she has over you because you spent an hour talking about her to a roomful of people.”

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29. “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.”

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30. “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.”

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31. “We all have to let go of the Prince Charming complex and realize he doesn’t necessarily exist in the package we assume he’ll come in.”

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32. “Carrie Fisher. “Stay afraid, but do it anyway.”

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33. “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.”

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34. “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.”

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35. “I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.”

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36. “I’ve dated a number of ‘mama’s boys.’”

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37. “But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.”

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

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39. “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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40. “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.”

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41. “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.”

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42. “Before I got married, I dated the gamut.”

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43. “And anything I have accomplished, I did so not in spite of being a black woman, but because I am a black woman”.”

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

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45. “I love TV. I love the stability of it.”

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46. “Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.”

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47. “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.”

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48. “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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49. “I don’t get enough sleep so I always have undereye bags.”

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50. “As I retraced the steps and missteps of my life, I began to stop avoiding memories that triggered emotional flashbacks, and I chose to embrace them as revelations. Each revealed a bread crumb that I had dropped along the way, leading me further on my path to understanding who I truly am.”

— Gabrielle Union