Regina King Quotes
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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.
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My mother was a single mom, and most of the women I know are strong.
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I try to eat well, but I don't deny myself the foods I love. I just eat them in moderation.
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And once I was in college, about - maybe the end of my first semester of my sophomore year, I realized that college just was not my jam and that I felt like I was learning more when is actually on set. And I think a lot of that had to do with - I was working while I was in college. I was on "227," so I didn't get a chance to really be immersed in the culture of my school.
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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!
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I think I've been lucky in the regard to have a team that sees me as an artist.
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The good news for me is that I have an amazing team behind me, and they've been with me for 20 years now - almost 20 years. And they have seen me as an actress, not necessarily just a black actress. So I have been lucky enough for them to see me that way.
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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."
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I stay in tune with my family and God.
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Men. You can't live with them, you can't... no. That's about it.
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Race is a very sensitive subject.
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I'm just really thankful to have the chance to portray a character you don't see every day.
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Children at certain ages have distinct actions, and boys at certain ages have a particular way of acting too.
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Divorce is the hardest obstacle I've had to overcome in my life. I would like to believe that most people don't get married anticipating divorce. When I reached that crossroad, I felt like such a failure. After years of therapy together, I realized that staying together was emotionally destructive. My husband didn't want the divorce, but I did. So there was a lot of bitterness initially. Although we are still divorced, we still call each other "family." It was a journey to get there, but it's a beautiful place to be.
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I had been going on auditions and things like that since I was probably 10 - 11 years old.
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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.
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I went to public - I graduated from publics - Westchester High. I'm a product of LA Unified.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I would like to believe that most people don't get married anticipating divorce.
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If your woman is asleep every time you get home, shes just really tired. Of you.
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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."
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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.
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Especially in this industry, women challenge men much more now because we're saying, 'We can do it, too.'
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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.
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People love to see themselves on screen in a way that makes sense and seems on point.
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And what happens a lot of times when - let's just speak specifically white and black - when white or black people feel misunderstood when it comes to talking about race, they immediately get defensive.
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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?
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"Southland" was not written for a black woman.
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