Explore Quotes by Regina King

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

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

I make smart food choices. I love food, especially fish, chicken, and beef.

When you see all the suits in the room, everybody in the room has on suits, you know, the women, too. We're not wearing dresses and chiffon and we're not as fun as we used to be.

I would definitely welcome lighter material, but I like to be where the truth lies.

I do an annual detox for two weeks, eliminating sugar, processed foods, and simple carbs from my diet. I usually lose 7-10 pounds and look at it as my yearly renewal.

I want to be around to see my son grow up and to enjoy my grandkids, which means I need to make my health a priority.

My father is still so much a part of me - from my physique and fast metabolism, which I'm so thankful for now, to my sense of connection to the universe.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I want to live a full life - period.

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

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.

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

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 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.