Gabrielle Quotes

Safety is always a paramount concern for us.

In a perfect world, the entertainment and media industry and the content on our screens would reflect the true American scene.

Without a plan your kind of just like a dog chasing it's tail, your not getting anywhere.

I think most women we go through a stage in relationship, this is men and women where I'm trusting you, but now I got to test it, I have to make sure your the real deal.

You are always going to face forces that can bring you to your knees.

I have so much paperwork. I'm afraid my paperwork has paperwork.

No one actually needs another person or another person's love to survive. Love is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do.

Daddy always said you only explained things to the people that actually mattered.

Intimacy doesn't have all that much to do with backseats of cars. Real intimacy is brushing your teeth together.

Sorry but nothing of much importance ever happened to me...I'm just a girl who forgot to look both ways before crossing the street.

Why do two people fall in love? It's a mystery.

As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.

I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness.

You are a shelf of books without the pages.

As long as we're together, does it matter where we go?

I feel very accomplished. It makes me feel great to know that I am impacting lives and of service to the world.

What makes me vulnerable is speaking up about topics that may be controversial to others.

Putting your well-being first - like putting your oxygen mask on before you help the person next to you - that really benefits all your relationships.

Honesty is a big deal, and when your honest everything will fall into place.

I can't sing but I can understand wanting to keep a balance, trying to pursue dreams, while creating a stable environment for my children.

Family and the natural surroundings played a big role in shaping my values.

Every life is a tragedy, but far more the writer's life, because the more he has to see, the more deeply he understands and feels about life, the less time he has to put it down.

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.

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!

We will only grow as big as we dream that's why we must dream big.

And when she dreams, she dreams of a girl who was lost at sea but one day found the shore.

You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later.

It was such a sweet, sad song with such sweet, sad lyrics. Old-fashioned a little, but also timeless.

Eye contact made people think you were being truthful even if you weren't.

By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet.

There's a pleasure to loving someone even when you know there's no chance in them loving you back. The pain I felt let me know I was still alive.

And hard times are good in their own way, too. Because the only way you can achieve true happiness is if you experience true sadness as well. It's all about light and shade. Balance.

Saying you're through with romance is like saying you're done with living, Betty. Life is better with a little romance, you know.

It's a tragic fact to die in an accident

People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men.

It was funny how dad was more honest in a book that anyone in the world could pick up and read than he could be talking to me. Or maybe it was sad. One or the other. Sometimes it’s hard to tell.

The words you can't find, you borrow.

That Woman is in love with her own grief.

I was crying a little for the boy I had wanted him to be and the boy he hadn’t turned out to be.

My heart was a little bit broken, but I still had to go to school. I buttoned my dress shirt over it and my winter coat, too. I hoped it didn't show too much.

But I wondered if all this kissing was a bad habit with him and me. The thing we did with our mouths instead of talking.

Each period had required me to be a slightly different person, and that was exhausting. I wondered if school had always felt this way and whether it was like this for everone.

Tragedy is when someone ends up dead. Everything else is just a bump in the road. For the record, that was something Daddy used to say.

Life used to move much more quickly when I was a girl. We needed to abbreviate just to keep up.

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.

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

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

I shop at a lot of vintage stores because the prices are amazing, and I love the idea that there's a history behind the piece I'm wearing.

With both kids, I started working out again at 16 days postpartum, but I treated myself with kindness, doing mild workouts, because my fitness level was lower.

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