Top 30 Regina King Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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.””

— Regina King

2. “And just because someone doesn’t understand doesn’t mean they don’t want to.”

— Regina King

3. “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.”

— Regina King

4. “I stay in tune with my family and God.”

— Regina King

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

— Regina King

6. “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.”

— Regina King

7. “Men. You can’t live with them, you can’t... no. That’s about it.”

— Regina King

8. “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

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

— Regina King

10. “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?”

— Regina King

11. “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.”

— Regina King

12. “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

13. “I want to live a full life – period.”

— Regina King

14. “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.”

— Regina King

15. “I’m just really thankful to have the chance to portray a character you don’t see every day.”

— Regina King

16. “I went to public – I graduated from publics – Westchester High. I’m a product of LA Unified.”

— Regina King

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

— Regina King

18. “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.””

— Regina King

19. “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.”

— Regina King

20. “I would like to believe that most people don’t get married anticipating divorce.”

— Regina King

21. “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.”

— Regina King

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

— Regina King

23. “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

24. “And there’s also not enough films that are more of a imitation of what real life looks like.”

— Regina King

25. “Race is a very sensitive subject.”

— Regina King

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

— Regina King

27. “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.”

— Regina King

28. “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.”

— Regina King

29. “I try to eat well, but I don’t deny myself the foods I love. I just eat them in moderation.”

— Regina King

30. “I think I’ve been lucky in the regard to have a team that sees me as an artist.”

— Regina King

31. “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.”

— Regina King

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32. “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.”

— Regina King

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

— Regina King