Quotes from Gabrielle Union

You have to develop a very thick skin.

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.

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

Reality TV looks more like America than movies do.

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

Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

All minorities think they're immune, but we're absolutely part of the one in five that gets skin cancer! It's a myth, and myths are meant to be debunked!

I love TV. I love the stability of it.

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

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

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

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

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.

My mom is painfully sweet she's from Nebraska.

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.

I think I'm drawn to more villain-type characters, because it's so cool to get to say all the things you want to say. In Hollywood, you get to this position where you have to bite your tongue so much. You take all your experiences of not being able to say what you really want to say, and channel that through your character.

Reality TV looks more like America than movies do.

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.