This Is Just My Face Quotes

“I refuse to be anyone’s survivor because I prefer to think of myself as a winner.”
― Gabourey Sidibe, This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare

“I just assumed that at the time if I could display a talent worthy of praise. . . that I wasn't just who you thought I was, I thought I wouldn't be fat anymore. That may seem silly, I know that now. But at the time, I thought that if I could just get the world to see me the way I saw myself, that my body wouldn't be the thing you walked away thinking about. I wouldn't be that fat girl, I wouldn't be that dark skinned girl. I'd be Gabby I'd be human”
― Gabourey Sidibe, This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare

“Don’t let anyone else take away your joy. If they don’t want to be with you or around you, let them go. Pick up your shit and keep going. You came into the world by yourself, and the next person’s lungs don’t help you breathe.”
― Gabourey Sidibe, This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare

“I was born a cynical, suspicious, forty-five-year-old divorcée”
― Gabourey Sidibe, This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare

“My beauty doesn't come from a mirror. Never has and never will.”
― Gabourey Sidibe, This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare

“A woman who doesn’t apologize for her very existence on Earth is rare, and that’s what I wanted for myself.”
― Gabourey Sidibe, This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare

“Did this bitch not know I was being sarcastic? I hate that sarcasm is hard to convey in a text. There should be a special font for sarcasm so people can tell when I’m being an asshole.”
― Gabourey Sidibe, This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare

“Google needs to mind her damn business!”
― Gabourey Sidibe, This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare

“(Adulthood is all about waiting to take your pants off.)”
― Gabourey Sidibe, This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare

“we are genuinely discussing how we envision ourselves fighting off an attack. Really, it’s something that all mothers and daughters should discuss. The same way that all fathers and sons should discuss why no one should ever be raped in the first place.”
― Gabourey Sidibe, This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare

“I knw that babies stare at me cuz they're curious or whatever, but I still kinda want to fight them. #RudeAssBaby”
― Gabourey Sidibe, This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare

“Feelings aren’t an absence of strength. I know this for sure. So why should I pretend to have a sense of humor just to allow someone else to take a shot at me?”
― Gabourey Sidibe, This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare

“I don’t think it’s funny when a stranger calls me a fat bitch no matter what they’re offering to do for me. I don’t think it’s funny that I’m not allowed to say that my feelings are hurt. Feelings aren’t an absence of strength.”
― Gabourey Sidibe, This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare

“It seems as though if I cured cancer and won a Nobel Prize someone would say, “Sure, cancer sucks and I’m glad there’s a cure, but her body is just disgusting. She needs to spend less time in the science lab and more time in the gym!”
― Gabourey Sidibe, This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare

“But I didn’t feel honored. I felt offended. So offended that I planned to ignore for the next few weeks the “friends” who’d sent me those pictures. (I’m very organized in my pettiness, and I like to plan ahead.)”
― Gabourey Sidibe, This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare

“Somehow, with all the gifts, dinners, and the left-behind checkbook, I’ve handicapped my family.”
― Gabourey Sidibe, This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare

“Money changes people. It changed the way my family saw me. It changed how they interacted with me. Perhaps more than it changed them, it changed how I saw them as well.”
― Gabourey Sidibe, This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare

“My beef is with feeling forced to have a sense of humor about what I look like. Well, I don’t fucking feel like it.”
― Gabourey Sidibe, This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare

“Your baby is the worst and you know it.”
― Gabourey Sidibe, This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare

“Perhaps I had to change my idea of what an insult sounds like.”
― Gabourey Sidibe, This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare

“You keep your horrible boyfriend around because you feel like shit, and he’s the only one around who agrees with you. He validates the part of you that thinks you deserve bad things instead of good things. When you start believing that you deserve good things, you’ll dump him because he won’t fit anymore. But for now, he treats you like shit because that’s what you want.”
― Gabourey Sidibe, This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare

“Even now, whenever a friend comes over to my apartment, I count down the minutes until they’re gone so I can finally take my pants off. (Adulthood is all about waiting to take your pants off.)”
― Gabourey Sidibe, This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare

“(I’m very organized in my pettiness, and I like to plan ahead.)”
― Gabourey Sidibe, This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare

“Precious is a survivor, and I refuse to be anyone’s survivor because I prefer to think of myself as a winner.”
― Gabourey Sidibe, This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare

“I waited in front of the building and used the extra time I had to pray. I didn’t pray that I would get the role. I prayed that whatever my life was supposed to be, whatever my path was, I would finally be on it.”
― Gabourey Sidibe, This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare

“I learned to lead with my personality. I learned to deal with rumors. (If the girls on the talker floor thought I got a promotion by being a lesbian, I let them. All the lesbians I know are dope and get shit done. I’ve certainly been called worse!)”
― Gabourey Sidibe, This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare

“Things can sometimes work out if you’re smart, but my greatest virtue is patience.”
― Gabourey Sidibe, This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare

“Mom had tried to nickname me Gabby when I was a baby, but legend has it that I refused to respond to it. I knew who I was, and letting others call me Gabby meant letting them call me by someone else’s name.”
― Gabourey Sidibe, This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare

“P.S.: When I do die, don’t let Lifetime do a movie about my life.”
― Gabourey Sidibe, This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare

“It was nice even if it didn’t really make us a closer family. But we’re not as fractured as I sometimes think. We’re all we have, yes, but we’re enough.”
― Gabourey Sidibe, This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare