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" I'm not sensitive, I'm not a weepy person. "
Gabrielle Union
Sensitive
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" I think if we open ourselves to all different kinds of men and all groups, we find a lot more opportunities to love. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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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" In Hollywood, you play a mom, and the next thing you know, you're on 'The Golden Girls.' They age you so fast. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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Year
Time
" 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! "
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Your
Work
" 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. "
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Passion
Men
" 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. "
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Chicken
Fun
" The guys I tended to date, you know, didn't necessarily have it altogether but I had a great time. "
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Date
" 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!' "
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School
Marry
Teeth
" 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. "
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" 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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Love
Live
Husband
" You have to develop a very thick skin. "
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" 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. "
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Fear
You
Losing
" In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail. "
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Hollywood
Kind
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" Sometimes it's not even a role that's specifically written for a woman. It could be a role written for a white man or Asian man, or Latino. If it's something that I feel I could do well, I go after it. Especially if it's nothing that has to be gender or race specific, I'm all over it. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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Black
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" 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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" If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn't allow that person to stay in my world. "
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Someone
" 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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" I love horses. "
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" 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! "
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" You have to be resilient. "
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