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.
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I am especially fascinated with mermaids, and they are always coming out in pirate stories.
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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.
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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.'
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I consider myself to have one of the greatest voices in the industry.
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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.
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If you can make a character likable that's not very nice, that's the challenge of the job.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I understand entertaining. You want people to walk out saying, 'I spent a night with interesting people.'
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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.
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In our school, there were lots of bands putting up posters saying 'Come to our gigs'.
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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.
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Everything's cyclical. Having been raised by actors, I watched their careers, and the challenge is to take time off.
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Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.
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I just really want to do good work and work with some great people, people who challenge me.
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Challenge is good for any relationship.
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We need to fix this. It hasn't been done yet because there's still a reluctance to admit that there was even a problem - anywhere above seven rogue soldiers who got out of control on the night shift.
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When you're in a fighter jet and there's a dark layer of clouds with just one blue hole with the sun going through it, you shoot for that hole. You go vertical into the light, and suddenly, instead of gray and dark, it's light and blue. You are totally connected with the elements. You are in another world.
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I'm a bit of a workaholic.
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Society or culture or whatever you might want to call it, has created us all solely and wholly for the purpose of maintaining its continuity and status quo.
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Especially in this industry, women challenge men much more now because we're saying, 'We can do it, too.'
