Top 55 Rege-Jean Page Quotes

I like the fact that, as an actor, one day I can be the president. I can be an astronaut.

‘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.

It’s a brilliant job. I’m literally paying my mortgage by fighting imaginary dragons.

I’ve listened to a couple of Dungeons and Dragons’ podcasts in my time.

If you’re defensive, you defend what you have, but you get nothing more. You don’t get bigger.

‘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.

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

I watched my friends play Baldur’s Gate,’ so I’m like a second-generation Dungeons and Dragoner.’

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

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.

Because when you are something people don’t know quite how to define, it means you get more of an opportunity to define yourself to bring something new to the table, to bring a new view on things.

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.

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.

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.

If you’re open, you’re vulnerable – but vulnerable to being changed and to being a better man.

I want everything I do to be as sexy as Bridgerton,’ just in different ways.

I think that different people are objectively attractive in different ways and a big part of the romance genre for me is in discovering what that true attractiveness is.

I’ve never felt particularly comfortable in any defined boundaries, ever.

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

Simon is clearly in the tradition of romantic archetypes, your Darcys, your Heathcliffes.

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

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

‘Bridgerton’ is something a bit like if Jane Austen met Gossip Girl’ and maybe like 45 Shades of Grey.’

‘Bridgerton’ is a lot like the period dramas that you know and love, but nothing like it’s forerunner. It’s faster, funny, sexier, and more glamorous.

Not boys don’t cry’ – boys should cry, and it makes you healthier and stronger for it.

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.

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

The fight that needs to be won is over that false pride before you can discover the vulnerability that allows you to unlock all the good stuff that does actually make you attractive, hopefully.

I played a ton of Diablo’ as a teenager, so I’m used to the fact that I play a paladin – that’s just what I do, and I know what that means, to a degree.

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

I would say that’s at the center of masculinity in the 21st century: How do you become comfortable enough that you can feel stronger by opening up to another human being, rather than the instinct, which is, the more closed off you are, the stronger you are because you’re not vulnerable?

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.

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 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.

When I got involved in the punk scene, my notion of what a career was changed. I realized that a career in the arts was actually about having the people and community to support you making your art.

I used to be in music, in a punk band in my teens. It was very teenage of me, I wanted to find a way to be loud and angry and righteous and that seemed the most productive way to do so.

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

I think the idea we had with Bridgerton’ was very much in the early conversations, to do something fresh and exciting and entirely more fun, fast, funny and glamorous than has been done before in the period genre.

My father spoke with something very similar to a 1920s newscaster type of English, and I learnt that accent of power in post-colonial Zimbabwe. So I learnt that, and I learnt how to copy it, and I learnt how to shift in and out of it, but also talk like my mother’s relatives in the village.

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

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?

Kunta Kinte is NOT an American, and he utterly rejects that idea at every turn.

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

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

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.

It’s not always about reaching the widest audience. It’s about how you reach people, and in that sense, there’s no difference between a little room in a back basement with ten people if you hit them hard enough, there’s a nobility to reaching ten people. They are not irrelevant because they are less than 10,000.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Intimate scenes are like dance rehearsals – it’s all choreography.

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.

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.