R.K. King Quotes

My surroundings have always been conducive to achieving what you want and believing in self 100 per cent; not being afraid to stand up and voice your opinion.

I don't think something is a failure if you put your all into it. I'm a big fan of the saying, "Nothing beats a failure but a try."

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.

I've tried to be flexible in my career by doing a little bit of everything and that's worked for me.

I never really loved school through junior high, but then I started running track my freshman year, and I was just like, 'Wow, this is cool!

I try to eat well, but I don't deny myself the foods I love. I just eat them in moderation.

I had been going on auditions and things like that since I was probably 10 - 11 years old.

And there's also not enough films that are more of a imitation of what real life looks like.

I recognize the amount of time that it takes as a director. I made the choice to stop taking roles outside of L.A. because I didn't want to miss any of my child's life.

And just because someone doesn't understand doesn't mean they don't want to.

"Legally Blonde 2" wasn't written specifically for a black woman.

"Southland" was not written for a black woman.

I can work inside the boundaries of Erika Murphy, or whoever the character is. It's fun to create somebody that's not you, that doesn't exist.

I've always been selective about materials I choose anyways. The incoming calls haven't been projects that I necessarily want to do. Now I can always be called "Emmy winner Regina King."

Race is a very sensitive subject.

We play different people - our art form is performance art - so unless you're playing the same type of person, I don't know if you could improve or make it worse.

When you look at "American Crime" and you have the character Terri LaCroix is a pharmaceutical executive - why does that character always have to be white?

I watch ESPN all day. If you come into my trailer, ESPN is on. That's the first thing I do when I leave the set.

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

It's happening right now... it's just not on film, it's not being recorded.

I tell myself time heals. It really does.

When I leave here, when my final day on this earth is up, I want to leave in peace. I want to have peace in my heart.

We could all get along if we just hang out at iSurfing.

Nice guys just don't finish first in the music industry.

As a black man, you run from the cops. It's different now, but back when I was coming up, you run.

We wouldn't be as far along as a country if we didn't take on some of Martin Luther King's ways that he instilled in us.

Over the years, a lot of rappers - Lil' Wayne, Ice Cube - have used my name in their songs. I'm a real touchstone of history.

Ideas run wild without discussion.

No-one inspired me growing up more than Thom Yorke. I was eleven when the obsession hit hard and I'm still such a huge fan.

Marriage is a garden that I'm constantly growing in.

Lyrics are tough for me and I never feel like they're quite done.

You always want your significant other to think that you hung the moon, but when you're working in music you also want them to be honest with you.

I've been doing music for a pretty long time, since I was a kid, and I must have been around 10 years old when I started playing shows with my siblings.

Democracy is threatened by the inertia of good people, by the selfishness of most people, and by the evil designs of a few people.

Sometimes loving eyes don't see what they don't want to see.

Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map.... A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it.

The only religions I don't like are the ones that insist their God is bigger than your God.

I don't want to go to the heaven that I learned about when I was a kid. To me, it seems boring.

I'd been raised by my parents to believe barfing your feelings on other people was the height of impoliteness.

We're all going to die; I'm just trying to make it a little more interesting.

When facts speak, the wise man listens.

There had never been a shortage of fools in the world

You should never trust a person who prays in public.

A place is yours when you know where all the roads go.

Sometimes life coughs up coincidences no writer of fiction would dare copy.

Sometimes the things presented to us as choices aren't choices at all.

sometimes an accident can be an unhappy womans best friend

Practice is invaluable... honesty is indispensable.

the only mortal sin is giving up.

She felt like someone who drowns remembering what it was like to still be on the boat, so calm and at ease, so carelessly safe