Gabourey Sidibe Quotes

When 'Totally Biased' was canceled, I thought my career was over - but apparently it wasn't.

When my career slowed, I knew deep down it wasn't over.

Vlogging started as a hobby - something I was partaking in purely for fun - and has now become a career, and that feels almost like an impossible reality.

I almost sabotaged my career. 'The Fast and the Furious' didn't let me, and I'm grateful now. That franchise gave me the opportunity.

I never thought I will ever get back into films when I took that break. 'English Vinglish' just happened.

When I was a kid, I had ambitions for being a television announcer, which was before television took off, you know, in the late '40s. And just through necessity, going out looking for work, I was starting to sing, and dance, and act, and I never expected to do that, nor to have any success at it at least.

I never thought modeling would become my career. I thought it was something I'd do to pay my way through college.

It never occurred to me that I'd have a dance company.

Had anyone told me that I was going to have a career in business, I would have said, 'No way.'

Growing up, I never imagined I would be an actor.

I didn't think I'd ever be an actor.

When I turned fifty, I decided to quit the mill and go to graduate school.

If someone had told me in 1963 that one day I would be in Congress, I would have said, 'You're crazy. You don't know what you're talking about.'

A career is a series of ups and downs, of comebacks.

There is life after acting.

I would have never thought that I'd be doing Chanel.

I've had to change careers several times. Sometimes because my interests changed. Sometimes because all bridges have been burned beyond recognition, sometimes because I desperately needed money. And sometimes just because I hated everyone in my old career or they hated me.

Honestly, six months before getting 'Orange Is the New Black,' I remember telling my manager I was done.

I also did an Ozzy piece for him, and so I got hired. Everything happened really fast. I can't give people advice, because everything in my life changed completely in less than a year and it's still not something I am used to.

I never thought I'd be some fashion mogul!

I did a geography degree, and if you told me whilst I was ignoring my geography degree revision in order to watch another episode of '24' that one day I wouldn't need that geography degree and I'd actually be in '24,' I'd have been quite pleased, I think.

I always wanted to do something completely different.

If things had gone according to my plans, I'd be a lawyer. I never dreamt of being an actress.

I took a break from acting for a little bit, came back, and didn't know how it was going to be, but I had so much fun. I really had, like, a reinvention, a renewal.

Some players have to change their game in their careers. I did, and I like it.