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Gabourey Sidibe

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

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Gabourey Sidibe

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.

– Gabourey Sidibe

Gabourey Sidibe

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

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Gabourey Sidibe

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.

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Gabourey Sidibe

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.

– Gabourey Sidibe

Gabourey Sidibe

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

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Gabourey Sidibe

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.

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Gabourey Sidibe

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.

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Gabourey Sidibe

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.

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Gabourey Sidibe

While ‘Precious’ isn’t a real person, it’s someone’s story, and it’s too many peoples’ story.

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Gabourey Sidibe

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.

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Gabourey Sidibe

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.

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