Quotes from Regina King

I don't remember a day where I didn't own a pair of Vans or Chucks. I just try to wear what I feel comfortable in.

If you have the opportunity for your art to meet activism, you shouldn't pass that up when it comes your way.

As an actor, we have to be so vulnerable that it's really hard to involve yourself with the other aspects of filmmaking.

I think women supporting women is priceless.

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

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.

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 stay in tune with my family and God.

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

Athletes are very cool to 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'm just really thankful to have the chance to portray a character you don't see every day.

I know in my own marriage I stayed in it to provide my son with what I thought was a stable background and to give him what I thought was the family life a child should have with two parents. But that isn't always the best way, and it took me taking my son to therapy after the divorce to really see it.

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

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.

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.

I stay in tune with my family and God.

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.

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

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.

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

If anyone has the opportunity to connect the dots and look at the directors I've worked with, from TV to film, there are some heavy hitters, from Taylor Hackford to John Singleton.

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

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.