Acting was a hobby for me when I started out, or maybe it was because there weren't a lot of examples of me when I found an interest in this art form.
Some people in our business want to play young as long as you can. I just wasn't interested in being a 30-year-old playing a teenager.
I feel like I was lucky to have a mother that allowed me to dream.
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.
I'm one of those people where, if I go back and look at it, I'm going to feel like, 'I wish I would have... ' I need to just leave it on the floor. What's done is done.
It's kind of crazy to think that I've now been divorced longer than I was married, but I appreciate the journey, because it brought my ex and I back to a friendship that helped us become great co-parents.
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 would definitely welcome lighter material, but I like to be where the truth lies.
I want to be around to see my son grow up and to enjoy my grandkids, which means I need to make my health a priority.
