Quotes from Gabrielle Union

You have to be resilient.

I'm not sensitive, I'm not a weepy person.

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.

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.

I like meat and carbohydrates.

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.

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

In Hollywood, you play a mom, and the next thing you know, you're on 'The Golden Girls.' They age you so fast.

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.

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

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've dated a number of 'mama's boys.'

Before I got married, I dated the gamut.

If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn't allow that person to stay in my world.

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.

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.

In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.

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!'

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

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.

I drink a gallon of water a day.