Regina King Quotes

My biggest challenge will be to play the totally submissive woman. It takes a toll on you when you play someone who's far removed from your personality.

I stay in tune with my family and God.

I want to live a full life - period.

You don't know what unconditional love is. You may say you do, but if you don't have a child, you don't know what that is. But when you experience it, it is the most fulfilling ever.

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.

People love to see themselves on screen in a way that makes sense and seems on point.

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

My mother was a single mom, and most of the women I know are strong.

Especially in this industry, women challenge men much more now because we're saying, 'We can do it, too.'

I went to public - I graduated from publics - Westchester High. I'm a product of LA Unified.

A Modern Mom to me is not always someone that juggles a career and family. A Modern Mom is a woman who takes care of herself on the inside and the outside.

Men. You can't live with them, you can't... no. That's about it.

It's an honest place to be if you don't understand someone else's experience, but there's no way for the other to understand if a conversation or an explanation isn't made.

I would like to believe that most people don't get married anticipating divorce.

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.

I think I've been lucky in the regard to have a team that sees me as an artist.

I'm just really thankful to have the chance to portray a character you don't see every day.

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 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.

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?

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.

Race is a very sensitive subject.

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."

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.

"Southland" was not written for a black woman.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.