And just because someone doesn’t understand doesn’t mean they don’t want to.
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.
It’s an honest place to be if you don’t understand someone else’s experience, but there’s no way for the other to understand if a conversation or an explanation isn’t made.
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.
Children at certain ages have distinct actions, and boys at certain ages have a particular way of acting too.
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.
And what happens a lot of times when – let’s just speak specifically white and black – when white or black people feel misunderstood when it comes to talking about race, they immediately get defensive.
Race is a very sensitive subject.
I had been going on auditions and things like that since I was probably 10-11 years old.
The good news for me is that I have an amazing team behind me, and they’ve been with me for 20 years now – almost 20 years. And they have seen me as an actress, not necessarily just a black actress. So I have been lucky enough for them to see me that way.
When you look at “American Crime” and you have the character Terri LaCroix is a pharmaceutical executive – why does that character always have to be white?
And there’s also not enough films that are more of a imitation of what real life looks like.
I don’t think something is a failure if you put your all into it. I’m a big fan of the saying, “Nothing beats a failure but a try.”
I can work inside the boundaries of Erika Murphy, or whoever the character is. It’s fun to create somebody that’s not you, that doesn’t exist.
I’ve always been selective about materials I choose anyways. The incoming calls haven’t been projects that I necessarily want to do. Now I can always be called “Emmy winner Regina King.”
We play different people – our art form is performance art – so unless you’re playing the same type of person, I don’t know if you could improve or make it worse.
I would like to believe that most people don’t get married anticipating divorce.
I try to eat well, but I don’t deny myself the foods I love. I just eat them in moderation.
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.