Quotes from Rege-Jean Page

I spent two years trying to get into drama school.

I clearly had a career in musical theater ahead of me and somewhere took a left turn and started getting all dour and serious and doing emotionally broken dukes.

Don't be afraid to shock people or be unexpected.

The thing that has appealed to me most about this career is getting to encounter and interact with the unexpected.

The freakiest thing about working on a Russo set is that the standards are so insanely high for everyone in every department that they don't police you through stuff. They're like, Here's this insanely difficult thing; do it.' And then they just expect you to be able to do it, because they don't hire folks who can't.

Eighty-two million households is what Netflix put out watched 'Bridgerton.' And I cannot hold 82 million in my head, because that doesn't fit. It's too big.

Anything that happens in America culturally resonates throughout the world because the American culture is exported universally.

Also I wanted to be an explorer when I was a kid. That was my first idea of what would be a really great thing to do in the world: to discover unknown things and pick around in them and see what you could bring back home to go, 'Look! The world is bigger than you thought it was.'

'SNL' is all about discovering the unknown, the unexpected.

It's cool to step on stage with your heroes.

Every single time I step on stage or on screen, I am contributing to a culture in which there's a dearth of people representing folks that look like me, or that have our context.

I'd be twice as hard on my agent to get on the case. Because I think that's the only way you end up with Bridgerton.' You don't get there unless you're knocking on the door.

As British people, we don't often face what our role in history is. We're only just beginning to do that. Storytellers have an incredibly important role in confronting that and continuing the conversation.

Oh man, I always try to avoid anything that I can already imagine. I want the thing that I don't even know exists.

Kunta Kinte is NOT an American, and he utterly rejects that idea at every turn.

I know how valuable relaxation is for us all, especially in trying times, so I couldn't be more glad to lend my voice to a sleep story.

Not boys don't cry' - boys should cry, and it makes you healthier and stronger for it.

I decided a very long time ago that I would refuse to be defined by trauma and would only be defined by success, when and where it comes.

Because when you are something people don't know quite how to define, it means you get more of an opportunity to define yourself to bring something new to the table, to bring a new view on things.

I like the fact that, as an actor, one day I can be the president. I can be an astronaut.

Being a Brit, you make a lot of period dramas.

Ultimately, you have to meet a realistic setting on screen with some imagination as a viewer, as that is what creates a story.