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.

- Gabrielle Union

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.

- Gabrielle Union

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

- Gabrielle Union

I like meat and carbohydrates.

- Gabrielle Union

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.

- Gabrielle Union

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.

- Gabrielle Union

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.

- Gabrielle Union

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.

- Gabrielle Union

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.

- Gabrielle Union

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

- Gabrielle Union

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.

- Gabrielle Union

Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.

- Gabrielle Union

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.

- Gabrielle Union

Boys are so much drama.

- Gabrielle Union

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.

- Gabrielle Union

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

- Gabrielle Union

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

- Gabrielle Union

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.

- Gabrielle Union

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.

- Gabrielle Union

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.

- Gabrielle Union