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" 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
Right
Thought
Day
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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. "
Gabrielle Union
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Feel
Woman
" 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 like meat and carbohydrates. "
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" 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. "
Gabrielle Union
Film
Black
Fight
" If my real life was half as exciting as what is reported, I would be thrilled. "
Gabrielle Union
Half
Life
Real
" You have to develop a very thick skin. "
Gabrielle Union
Thick Skin
You
Skin
" 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. "
Gabrielle Union
Thank God
God
Love
" 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. "
Gabrielle Union
Thought
Money
Help
" My friends are very opinionated about the people I date. "
Gabrielle Union
Very
Friends
Opinionated
" I like directors who have worked as actors. They know the experience. "
Gabrielle Union
Experience
Who
Like
" 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. "
Gabrielle Union
Money
Me
Job
" I've dated a number of 'mama's boys.' "
Gabrielle Union
Number
Dated
Mama
" 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
Shot
Many
Kind
" I drink a gallon of water a day. "
Gabrielle Union
Drink
Gallon
Water
" 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. "
Gabrielle Union
Hot
Race
Like
" In Hollywood, you play a mom, and the next thing you know, you're on 'The Golden Girls.' They age you so fast. "
Gabrielle Union
Play
Mom
You
" I just kind of assumed that you do a movie and then you leave and you hop onto the next thing. I never thought that people are actually buddies. "
Gabrielle Union
Leave
Kind
Thought
" Reality TV looks more like America than movies do. "
Gabrielle Union
More
Movies
Reality
" I've been trying to get cast as a lesbian for years. "
Gabrielle Union
Years
Cast
Been
" 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
Fear
You
Losing
" But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday. "
Gabrielle Union
Smiling
Prefer
Go
" Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty. "
Gabrielle Union
Hollywood
Beauty
Shades
" If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn't allow that person to stay in my world. "
Gabrielle Union
World
Respect
Someone
" I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven. "
Gabrielle Union
Basketball
Year
Time
" I'm not sensitive, I'm not a weepy person. "
Gabrielle Union
Sensitive
Person
" 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. "
Gabrielle Union
Director
Book
Black
" I date, but the person I date most is myself, unfortunately. "
Gabrielle Union
Myself
Person
Date
" I don't function well in chaos, whether it be my sheets or the dishwasher. "
Gabrielle Union
Well
Chaos
Function
" 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. "
Gabrielle Union
Men
Children
Black
" 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
Long
Chicken
Fun