Regina King Quotes

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Regina King

Profession : Actress

Birth : January 15, 1971

I learned a lot from my Mom. My favorite lesson: remember there is no such thing as a certain way to parent and to remember that you are learning along with your child - it's ok to make mistakes.

Regina King

I love my city and I feel like the majority of the people that are in the city are people from other cities. So I think that L.A. sometimes might get a bad rap because it's known to be so Hollywood-oriented and then underneath that you have crime. But that's really the case in pretty much any major city that you go to.

Regina King

There's a difference between actresses of color and actresses not of color. If you look at how big my movies are.

Regina King

If your woman is asleep every time you get home, she's just really tired. Of you.

Regina King

You always make a film with the hope that all types of people will want to see your work and that it doesn't matter about your color, but unfortunately it still does.

Regina King

I know in my own marriage I stayed in it to provide my son with what I thought was a stable background and to give him what I thought was the family life a child should have with two parents. But that isn't always the best way, and it took me taking my son to therapy after the divorce to really see it.

Regina King

We know that's the bottom line: if money is made, the powers that be pay attention.

Regina King

Children at certain ages have distinct actions, and boys at certain ages have a particular way of acting too.

Regina King

If anyone has the opportunity to connect the dots and look at the directors I've worked with, from TV to film, there are some heavy hitters, from Taylor Hackford to John Singleton.

Regina King

As an actor, we have to be so vulnerable that it's really hard to involve yourself with the other aspects of filmmaking.

Regina King

I like working with people. I like talking to people.

Regina King

It is impossible to give a performance that makes you unaware of the fact that you're watching an actor and be really involved in all aspects of filmmaking.

Regina King

I feel like 'Leftovers' is dealing with subject matter that's kind of taboo when you're talking about religion and faith. They found a way to make it mysterious and intriguing without making people upset.

Regina King

Acting was a hobby for me when I started out, or maybe it was because there weren't a lot of examples of me when I found an interest in this art form.

Regina King

Some people in our business want to play young as long as you can. I just wasn't interested in being a 30-year-old playing a teenager.

Regina King

I feel like I was lucky to have a mother that allowed me to dream.

Regina King

I create my own backstory regardless of if I'm told something about the background or not. There's always more that you can develop in your head that makes a character more layered, more honest.

Regina King

Now I can always be called 'Emmy winner Regina King.' I think that in this business, it must mean something. Every time someone has won an award, and they're announcing them or speaking about them, that prefaces their name.

Regina King

I'm one of those people where, if I go back and look at it, I'm going to feel like, 'I wish I would have... ' I need to just leave it on the floor. What's done is done.

Regina King

The word 'divorce' wasn't foreign to me. As a child of the 1970s, I grew up as part of a generation of kids whose parents got divorced, and it wasn't seen as this terrible thing. Maybe that's why I believed what my father told me and Reina that day: that everything would be okay. But it wasn't.

Regina King