Regina King Quotes

I know I've got a lot of my mother in me.

My parents were married for sixty-five years, and I was married for about ten minutes, my first year at Yale Drama School. Something, somehow, didn't get passed on to my generation.

You draw the best things from your parents and family. You're going to pick up some of the bad things as well - there's a temper that runs through my dad's side of the family that I'm not especially keen on picking up a giant block of.

When critics called me a duplicate of my father, I knew I can't do anything about my genes but I ensured that I shed the romantic image and create my individual style.

As everyone, you do end up becoming your mother, but also as you're acting, I find out you become every member of your family, bits come out without you really wanting them to come out.

My parents couldn't give me a whole lot of financial support, but they gave me good genes. My dad is a handsome son-of-a-gun, and my mom is beautiful. And I've definitely been the lucky recipient. So, thank you, Mom and Dad.

I have great genes. Thank you to my mom and dad for that one.

Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

My father was always getting excited about something. It's genetically inside me somewhere.

I've got my dad's height and smoking habit. But I think I've got my mum's looks and sensibilities.

I think we're all a lot more like our parents than we want to admit.

I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.

My father was very bright. My mother had enormous drive. Put that together, and that's my gene pool.

They say the day you lose your parents, you start to look like them.

Number one, it was a chance to thank my parents, because they passed away a couple of years ago. They gave me so much by giving me the opportunity to play soccer, and I wanted to share the story we had together.

I mean you got to thank your parents for giving you the right genes.

Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate.

I have my father to thank for my build and height, and my mother to thank for my lips and eyes.

I grew up watching and learning from the ultimate partnership, and that is of my father and late uncle.

I look back on the influence my dad had on my life and career, and I just try to take the best parts of what he had.

We all grow up with inherited genes and inherited sensibilities, and they run very, very deep.

I think people are understanding that I'm immensely proud of my father. If people talk to me about him, I'll certainly respond. And there's a certain generation that still talks about him right off. And I take that with gratefulness and with gratitude.

My dad was a crazy person, but some of the best qualities about me came from him.

It doesn't bother me whether I am or I'm not compared to my dad. I do not feel any pressure at all from being his son.

I am the younger version of my father. I try to be as normal as I can.