33 Quotes by Marla Gibbs

When I get on a plane these days, I go first class.

There’s always something we can complain about. We’re all one. Things could always be better, but things could always be worse.

In my life I’ve learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we’re all searching for. I haven’t come across anyone who didn’t become a better person through love.

Everything must change and you do what you can with the changes that are made. You can’t stop it. You can’t fight it. Everybody tries to go back to yesterday, but you can’t go back to yesterday. The only time there is, is now.

You cheat yourself when you don’t do what it is you’re supposed to do. You have an obligation to learn everything that you can.

As soon as I finish one thing, there’s always something else on the horizon I want to do. I don’t have any intention of retiring from anything.

I grew up weird – very sensitive and highly inhibited. I felt like I was born in the wrong time zone to the wrong people at the wrong place.

The Lord put me on television to do these things I want to do in the community. And He knew I had a lot to learn. That’s why I’ve been on TV 16 years – not because I’m the greatest actress, but because I need the money.

Dave Chappelle asked me to come do his show. I read the script, and I said, ‘Has he lost his mind?’