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.

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.

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

I drink a gallon of water a day.

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

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.

I date, but the person I date most is myself, unfortunately.

Boys are so much drama.

I love TV. I love the stability of it.

Reality TV looks more like America than movies do.

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

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 like meat and carbohydrates.

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 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.

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.

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

I've been trying to get cast as a lesbian for years.

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.

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.

In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.

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.

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

Before I got married, I dated the gamut.

Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.

I think there's a lot of things that occur within the African-American community, that we would prefer to stay within the African-American community - that we get a little nervous when you start having scenes or dialogue that we know is going to be viewed and heard on a national or global scale.

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

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!'

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.

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

I've always had an interest in sports across the board.

I'm not the type to lay out on the beach, but I do love to work out outside, and that can really take a toll on your skin!

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!

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

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

The black community in Hollywood is very small and close-knit. Everyone has a common goal: to make a two-hour movie in 30 days.

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.

I like directors who have worked as actors. They know the experience.

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.

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.

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.

Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 no such thing as a healthy tan, and that's what people need to understand.

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

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.