Regina King Quotes

Especially in this industry, women challenge men much more now because we're saying, 'We can do it, too.'

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• I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • People
  • Trying
  • Challenge

• I am especially fascinated with mermaids, and they are always coming out in pirate stories.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Pirate
  • Especially
  • Mermaids

• I firmly believe that the Constitution is the most powerful challenge to illiberal tendencies. If the Constitution is followed in letter and spirit and if the laws are made in the spirit in which Constitution was made, liberties can indeed be protected.

  

  Palaniappan Chidambaram
  • Believe
  • Powerful
  • Challenge

• After I was 70, I realized that, 'Okay, I would like to have another 50 years, and I probably could.' But part of me is saying, 'Maybe I'm not going to have that much time.'

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Time
  • Me
  • Saying

• When I was in college at Amherst, my father asked me a favor: to take one course in economics. I loved it - for the challenge of its mysteries.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Father
  • College
  • Challenge

• If you can make a character likable that's not very nice, that's the challenge of the job.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Character
  • Job
  • Nice

• The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You're so Southern California. It was a surprise to me.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • School
  • Me
  • California

• I had something I was trying to say and sometimes the message is an easy transmission and sometimes it's a difficult one but I love the power of saying it so I'm gonna do it whether it's hard or easy.

  

  Faith Ringgold
  • Trying
  • Love
  • Power

• I created my own charity called My Peak Challenge. We've been able to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds. It's helping change people's lives, and I've had lots of wonderful letters about it.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Change
  • Challenge

• I'm not saying that Sam J. Jones was Flash Gordon - there's no such thing. No actor can be the person, that's a bunch of crap. People pay to see an actor be himself, whether he plays Hamlet or whatever.

  

  Sam J. Jones
  • People
  • Actor
  • Saying

• I understand entertaining. You want people to walk out saying, 'I spent a night with interesting people.'

  

  Aby Rosen
  • People
  • Night
  • Interesting

• The Ewoks were definitely a challenge of writing 'The Jedi Doth Return.' After having done so many things with characters who don't speak English, how was I going to make them stand out? Jedi is also rich with emotional material, particularly Darth Vader's transformation from the dark side back to the good.

  

  Ian Doescher
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Done

• In our school, there were lots of bands putting up posters saying 'Come to our gigs'.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Up
  • School
  • Saying

• When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people are saying.

  

  Walter Murch
  • People
  • Movie
  • Saying

• Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Saying
  • Birth
  • Punishment

• I just really want to do good work and work with some great people, people who challenge me.

  

  Salli Richardson
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Have you recently been through a challenge, disappointment, break up or disloyalty with somebody in your life? If so, it's important after you've been hurt, to take some time to think like a lion tamer about your pain, so you can tame the possibility of more negativity coming back to bite you again!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Fear
  • Challenge
  • Doors

• Challenge America grants go to the towns and hamlets of this sprawling country, where big touring companies will rarely go, and major actors, actresses, writers and artists may never appear in person.

  

  Louise Slaughter
  • Country
  • May
  • America

• Inspiration. From real life. I open my eyes and I travel and I look. And I read everything.

  

  Erik Spiekermann
  • Life
  • Inspiration
  • Consciousness

• Italy in the Seventies seems like a fascinating place.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Like
  • Place
  • Italy

• You know, I have some issues. But I just love to play different characters all the time, and I try not to repeat myself too much.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Time
  • Know
  • Characters

• I am not Superwoman. The reality of my daily life is that I'm juggling a lot of balls in the air trying to be a good wife and mother, trying to be the prime-ministerial consort at home and abroad, barrister and charity worker, and sometimes one of the balls gets dropped.

  

  Cherie Blair
  • Life
  • Good
  • Trying

• Especially in this industry, women challenge men much more now because we're saying, 'We can do it, too.'

  

  Regina King
  • Challenge
  • Industry
  • Saying