Top 99 Quotes & Sayings by Rege-Jean Page

My mum will come along and support whatever I'm doing in a very willing way, if nothing else.

Me and my friends used to joke about the fact that you don't see a Black man on a horse.

I think people were grateful for the intensity of the romantic aspects of Bridgerton;' I'm not sure how grateful I was to watch it for myself.

Well, I think it's incredibly important that when we are indulging ourselves in these kind of great, big Cinderella fantasies, that everyone gets to see themselves as worthy of status and glamour and love and redemption.

It takes such little imagination to include people of colour in the stories you tell and so much more work to exclude folks.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be an explorer. I wanted to go out into deep, dark jungle somewhere and find places in the world that hadn't been discovered. But then I discovered two things. One, that most of the world had already been visited and two, that would involve encountering entirely too many, very large spiders.

And I think that figuring out how to open the doors in yourself that make you worthy of love and capable of giving love is that ongoing conversation that I was most interested in exploring.

If we've endured white Jesus for this long, then folks can endure a Black Duke.

I clearly had a career in musical theater ahead of me and somewhere took a left turn and started getting all dour and serious and doing emotionally broken dukes.

Anything that happens in America culturally resonates throughout the world because the American culture is exported universally.

Home is a relative concept. Home is very much wherever it is that your people are and where you fit in.

I'm very wary of heroes. I try not to make them in the first place, but there was a phrase Idris Elba spoke a few years back, where he said 'It's not about being the next Denzel, it's about being the first you,' and I really took that to heart.

My big entrance into this industry was playing an enslaved person, which is an absolute clich of people of color.

You can put things in prose and understand them one way, and then there's understanding it by knowing how it feels. Things aren't real until you can feel that, until you can empathize with them. That's what protagonists do in books.

Also I wanted to be an explorer when I was a kid. That was my first idea of what would be a really great thing to do in the world: to discover unknown things and pick around in them and see what you could bring back home to go, 'Look! The world is bigger than you thought it was.'

I try to kind of surf the waves as they come and stay loose so that if anything does throw me off balance, I'm kind of floppy enough to roll with it.

Being a Brit, you make a lot of period dramas.

I don't think that it's ever irrelevant to know where you came from, to know your history, and to improve upon your history.

I know how valuable relaxation is for us all, especially in trying times, so I couldn't be more glad to lend my voice to a sleep story.

Zimbabwe was still a relatively young country when I was living there and its post-apartheid society was only newly formed. Being a mixed-race child in that environment means that you have to think about crafting your own identity and you question why you belong in that world.

If that executive at the top of the studio had seen more stories with all the people they don't relate to, they may be able to relate to them better, particularly if those stories are of a higher quality.

Intimate scenes are like dance rehearsals - it's all choreography.

The thing that has appealed to me most about this career is getting to encounter and interact with the unexpected.

I decided a very long time ago that I would refuse to be defined by trauma and would only be defined by success, when and where it comes.

I spent two years trying to get into drama school.

I found comfort in aggression, in breaking through false walls and challenging norms.

Oh man, I always try to avoid anything that I can already imagine. I want the thing that I don't even know exists.

We've all known how to smile since the beginning of time. We've all gotten married since the beginning of time. We've all had romance, glamour, and splendor. Representing that is incredibly important, because period drama for people who aren't white shouldn't mean only spotlighting trauma.

We all know how to focus on trauma. This is the struggle. We have the opportunity to respect our journey and focus on joy.

Everyone is worthy of finding love and enjoying escapist fantasies of a life of dancing, romance, and ambition.

I've been involved in more Georgian period duels than I ever thought I would in my life.

As Black people, we're very used to empathizing with the world through white people's eyes, because they're the protagonists. I know what it's like to look at the world and empathize with Superman because I spent my whole life doing that.

'Roots' touches so many people and once you start realizing that, you realize that it has touched an immense amount of people in an immensely important way.

I have a theory that I'm always hungry when I do interviews, as I always talk about food.

I'd be twice as hard on my agent to get on the case. Because I think that's the only way you end up with Bridgerton.' You don't get there unless you're knocking on the door.

I was up at 5 A. M. every day, going to the gym, meeting my trainer. He was horrible to me for an hour and a half every morning before the day started. I got my strength up just from surviving him.

I'd been acting as a hobby since I got to the U.K.

'Roots' was a massive responsibility because it is this foundational text in the States and it also resonates fairly strongly with pretty much any black community globally.

It's a great way to spend your time as a human: learning about other humans and then sharing that knowledge.

Ultimately, you have to meet a realistic setting on screen with some imagination as a viewer, as that is what creates a story.

As a teenager, the idea of running around, screaming at people was very appealing to me.

It's perfectly possible to spotlight Black joy over Black suffering. Setting the story in the past doesn't mean that Black folks do nothing but suffer.

I went to a Saturday school where you would do an hour of dancing, an hour of acting, and an hour of singing. I was loud and attention-seeking enough that they put me on their agency on the side.

We're still trying to figure out how to let men be vulnerable, to realize there's strength in vulnerability, and that it's how you fill out the circle of masculinity.

If you're open, you're vulnerable - but vulnerable to being changed and to being a better man.

I pretty much immediately ran away from university to be an actor.

Isn't there something wonderful about being surprised by what you weren't suspecting?

I don't think there is ever a wrong time to sit down and listen to your grandparents' stories.

I get to come in, I get to contribute my bit, and then the Bridgerton' family rolls on.

My introduction to the United States was plantations in Louisiana. It was delightful.

The idea of romantic heroes - When you say the word hero,' it implies it's someone you look up to. We talk a lot with Bridgerton' about it being female-centric, but also, what are men looking up to? What am I doing with this icon of masculinity?

As British people, we don't often face what our role in history is. We're only just beginning to do that. Storytellers have an incredibly important role in confronting that and continuing the conversation.

I think we're at a point in history where, generally, people consider themselves to be feminists in the sense that we believe in the equality of the sexes.

The reason you think history is white is because you've been lied to.

What's making this meal actually worth eating? I think of Bridgerton' as a Happy Meal, but with secret vitamins put in there. It's like a secretly healthy, organic burger.

Love is something that is genuine, delicate and involves care, passion and attention, and is entirely different to gifts, balls, jewels and circumstance.

Every single time I step on stage or on screen, I am contributing to a culture in which there's a dearth of people representing folks that look like me, or that have our context.

Eighty-two million households is what Netflix put out watched 'Bridgerton.' And I cannot hold 82 million in my head, because that doesn't fit. It's too big.

I think one of the bravest things about the romance genre is allowing people a happy ending.

One day I can be a spaceman, the next day I can be president, the day after that I can travel 200 years into the past. It's this really freeing profession.