Regina King

“I make smart food choices. I love food, especially fish, chicken, and beef.”

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

“A lot of black women still carry a lot of pain when they see black men with women who aren't black, and that's really unfortunate that that could make us so upset. It has to do with self esteem.”

“It's incredibly hard out there for women of color.”

“I feel like I was lucky to have a mother that allowed me to dream.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“I think women supporting women is priceless.”

“I love my city and I feel like the majority of the people that are in the city are people from other cities. So I think that L.A. sometimes might get a bad rap because it's known to be so Hollywood-oriented and then underneath that you have crime. But that's really the case in pretty much any major city that you go to.”

“I would definitely welcome lighter material, but I like to be where the truth lies.”

“My father is still so much a part of me - from my physique and fast metabolism, which I'm so thankful for now, to my sense of connection to the universe.”

“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!'”

“Now I can always be called 'Emmy winner Regina King.' I think that in this business, it must mean something. Every time someone has won an award, and they're announcing them or speaking about them, that prefaces their name.”

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

“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.”

“It's funny that until I actually met my husband, I never thought I'd get married.”

“I think 'Empire' is entertaining. It's a soap opera. Does it touch on stereotypes? Sure, it does... I don't know if that's necessarily good or bad.”