Gabourey Sidibe Quotes

1. I certainly used to wish that I was skinny, lighter-skinned, with long, pretty hair. But only because I used to get made fun of for being the absolute opposite. I didn't see all of that stuff as the American Dream. I just wanted to look normal. Now that I'm older, I really do feel like I am a beautiful girl.

2. I'm not a big fan of doing what my mother wants me to do, like any daughter.

3. (on Justin Timberlake) He's always calling and texting me. I don't mind but sometimes I'm like; "Don't you have a girl?" And he's like: "I'd leave her for you!"





4. I used to get hurt so badly. Any bit of criticism, I would cry. But at some point I just realized, I count more than anyone else, or anybody's opinion, because I'm living my life - I'm captain of this ship, without a first mate. And I really, really like who I am. I really, really dig me.

5. (on being recognized) We've all been to a place where we've felt ignored and unsupported, so it just affirms the meaning of the film's story to me. Ashley Olsen hugged me for a long time - like rubbing my back and everything - and said: "I am so proud of you." How cute is that? (But) it's harder to get through places. It really is.


6. I learned to love myself, because I sleep with myself every night and I wake up with myself every morning, and if I don't like myself, there's no reason to even live the life.

7. (on Gerard Butler) He's kinda sexy. I'd hit that. I'm not ashamed! I'd hit that. I'm sorry.





8. I have a nice smile, pretty lips, and big round cheeks. They help me look like a teenager.

9. I could have easily never worked again after "Precious." I could be back at my receptionist job and no one would be surprised, but I'm having a very crazy little career that no one thought would happen. Although that was never the plan.

10. I complain about my life. I used to complain about boys or not being able to drive or failing a test. Now I complain about boys, not being able to drive, and leaving home so much.





11. (on being nominated for the Oscars) It means that I just might be a movie star.

12. There were no real times that I thought maybe I can do it until Mo'Nique came along. She's a plus-sized woman who didn't care about one day being skinny. All my life I've been hearing that I'll never amount to anything until I am skinny. And she disproved everything that everyone has ever told me.

13. Mo'Nique is so full of love. I've been describing her as the tree in "Pocahontas." She's so wise and loving. She is just everything.





14. I've done a serious role and now I want to be funny. So I'm still holding on to my job just in case it doesn't work out.

15. (on her "look") It was so va va voom, my boobs looked so good in it. I had diamonds on too. Diamonds really do it. I don't really care because it gives me more freedom. I don't just flip through a magazine and say: "I want this," because I can't, really.

16. In the seventh grade, I was about to leave wearing a jumper, when my mom said she could see my panty line. So I just wore stockings. That day I broke my ankle, and the EMS cut my tights off. I got a full cast with no stockings on and no panties.



17. I work for the Fresh Air Fund and we send kids to camp. I love it but we'll have to see what happens.

18. I used to watch "Coming to America" every day after school. I have full-on long-running inside jokes with friends and family about different scenes in that movie alone. Also, my brother and I loved "The Golden Child," so, yeah: I was a huge fan of Eddie Murphy growing up.

19. I want an eccentric billionaire to buy me a Manhattan apartment!





20. I feel like Cinderella. It's certainly a life that I didn't see coming and that nobody saw coming for me. I cut school for one day (to audition) and I ended up being an Oscar nominee, which is now my status update on Facebook!

21. It's so weird to turn on a switch and be the role model for all women, for all African-Americans. That doesn't happen that easily. It just doesn't. And so I don't act up in public and I don't do anything weird - because my sisters are watching me, not because the world is watching me.

22. One day I decided that I was beautiful, and so I carried out my life as if I was a beautiful girl. I wear colors that I really like, I wear makeup that makes me feel pretty, and it really helps. It doesn't have anything to do with how the world perceives you. What matters is what you see.

23. (on "making" it) I'm just happy to show up. So, I don't have any plans of changing because I really, really like myself. It took a lot of work to get here. It's reaffirming for people to meet me and ask me not to change. And now we cry.






24. (on her stint as a host in "Saturday Night Live") It was a lot of fun to get to do that because nobody really knew that I could sing. Maybe people will think I'm now a triple threat.

25. My Plan A was to be a psychologist. I thought I would be a receptionist. I'm always middle of the road and very normal. I've always wanted a normal life, and this is what I got.


26. I'm really, really interested in the job of acting. I can really care less about being famous. I'm more about the work, and "The Big C" was amazing, so I wanted to be a part of it.

27. I'm allowed to make mistakes. Everybody will be like: "Oh, Gabby, she's new. She's so cute". I don't know how long I can ride the adorableness, but I plan to ride it as far as I can.

28. One of my favorite - well, my favorite, favorite, absolute favorite event to go to is Alfre Woodard has a party that I call the blacktress party. It's, like, black actresses that either have been nominated for an Oscar or should have been, and it sort of is just a night where we all get in a room and we get to celebrate each other.

29. I love "Glee". I live and breathe for Amber Riley - as well as her character Mercedes. But I wouldn't want to have a sing off with Amber because she's actually a friend of mine. She's amazing and fun and it would be so cool to be on the show with her and hang out with the cast. I'm a huge fan.

30. One of my personal plights in this business is about playing "The Sassy Black Girl."




31. I've grown up with girls that are like "Precious". I've grown up with people that are like everyone that I read about in that book. And so years later, when I was given the role, I just felt a huge responsibility to show the reality of that situation and to show that we're not making it up.

32. I can flip my tongue over. Only one in 10,000 people can. I learned that at Ripley's Believe It or Not!

33. The thing about "Precious", she's so far from a Hollywood character. She's so honest and real, I definitely felt like I knew her.

34. (on her new boyfriend) He's a regular guy working a regular job, and I'm scared to take him anywhere.

35. "Precious", she gets hit by life so many different ways and so many times, but she doesn't yield to it. She continues to get up and she continues to struggle for a better life.



36. I don't fixate on other people's opinions of my body.

37. (on the movies impact) Roger Ebert! His review was basically a love letter. "Gabby Sidibe is an overweight black girl who is illiterate and pregnant by her father." Look, I am black. I'm also overweight, but that's not the point of the story. The point is the abuse and her bravery. This stuff happens to skinny people, to white people, to so many different people that they've missed the point if they say it's about a fat girl.

38. Well, I was a big fan of the book and therein a huge fan of the girl "Precious". And so I felt like I knew this girl. I felt like I'd grown up alongside her. I felt like she was in my family. She was my friend and she was like people I didn't want to be friends with.

39. When it's time to film and to actually take on the role of "Precious", I felt an immense responsibility to do it justice.




40. (on confidence) It came late, too late in my life. Something like 21. I just know that I was tired. I was tired of thinking less of myself because others did.

41. Well, I'm certainly glad that I was nominated for an Oscar. There is certainly a respect that comes with that nod. Also, a compliment that comes with it, too. Not that I really know what I'm doing. In a lot of ways I feel like some child on set, or like a kid that snuck in the back door.

42. I didn't want to be an actress at all, or famous even. I certainly enjoy acting now, absolutely. Time will tell whether or not I enjoy fame.




43. (on Obama) I heard a rumor that President Obama knew who I was. You know, because Oprah is all up in his shizz, so I think that he might be aware of me. But then again, he's also aware of the whole world. He's probably a little brain busy.

44. While "Precious" isn't a real person, it's someone's story, and it's too many peoples' story.


45. I love the way I look. I'm fine with it. And if my body changes, I'll be fine with that.

46. Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it.

47. I have a birthmark on the inside of my left knee that resembles an upside-down sea horse.

48. All my life, people have made fun of the way I speak. I guess because a lot of my vocabulary is made up of things that other people say. I started making fun of them and imitating them and now that's how I speak.

49. (on yoga) I hate yoga so much. Like, if yoga was a person, I'd stab them. At the end of the day, it doesn't make any sense to kill yourself, because who are you trying to be beautiful for? It's a mind game, not a body game.

50. I think people look at me and don't expect much. Even though, I expect a whole lot.


51. Being an actress wasn't a plan at all, so what's happened to me is very strange. Life isn't very normal, even though I'm still very much a normal girl. I ride the subway, I ride the bus, and all of that.

52. I'm just a girl from Harlem who ended up in the right place at the right time.

53. (on photo shoots) I feel like a model. It justifies everyone in my life who told me I wouldn't be anything until I lost weight. It justifies that little girl who cried because she didn't think she could be in front of the camera. And it's for other girls who feel like they can't do this or that and feel like they're not pretty and not worthy of having their photo taken.

54. Hollywood, that whole industry, is a lot like a really small town. You bump into the same people all the time. I think "Six Degrees" of Kevin Bacon can be played with anyone and everyone in Hollywood.


What do you think of Gabourey Sidibe's quotes?


Feel free to comment and share this blog post if you find it interesting!