Quotes by Nicole Ari Parker

About Nicole Ari Parker:

Nicole Ari Parker Kodjoe is an American actress. Parker is known for her role as Becky Barnett in the 1997 film Boogie Nights and as the attorney Teri Joseph on the Showtime series Soul Food, which ran from 2000 to 2004. Additionally, Nicole co-starred on the short-lived UPN romantic comedy Second Time Around that lasted for one season.
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I believe that we have to be so race-conscious in this day and age.

Nicole Ari Parker

I have a real no-nonsense dad who taught me how to be resilient at a very young age.

Nicole Ari Parker

Every parent knows this moment in a child's age when he or she needs your attention in a very specific way because it's the beginning and ending of the early life of imagination. It's such a responsibility.

Nicole Ari Parker

Honestly, working with Eddie Murphy was mind-blowing just in terms of the budget alone. To see the respect he commands, to witness his presence, you understand why he and people like Martin Lawrence are stars.

Nicole Ari Parker

I just want to touch something deep in the heart of humanity. I don't know if that's in movies, producing films, or writing a book, but I'm concerned about our spiritual well-being as a human race. I want to impact people in a way that makes us all r...

Nicole Ari Parker

I'm kind of floating out there as an artist. I'm in a safe place where I can play a girlfriend or a best friend or a mommy or a lawyer, but a huge part of me is unused. I'm classically trained, historically inclined and somewhat revolutionary by natu...

Nicole Ari Parker

A guy once told me that I sound like I'm a little ahead of myself. I can't wait to thank him at the Oscars.

Nicole Ari Parker

I couldn't imitate anyone if I wanted to.

Nicole Ari Parker

I have friends struggling with autism, juvenile diabetes.

Nicole Ari Parker

When you set a play in the French Quarter in New Orleans, it's hard not to acknowledge the whole African-American, French, white mixing of races. That's what the French Quarter is: it's a Creole community.

Nicole Ari Parker

Between the kids, the jobs and everything, no matter what color you are, cardio is probably not on the top of your list.

Nicole Ari Parker

I can be really silly, but I never get to do that. I'm always playing on-the-nose characters, professionals - lawyers, a serious news anchor, people with a really focused energy, which can become a cliched type.

Nicole Ari Parker

I have one little pooch-y stomach in a picture, and all of a sudden I'm pregnant.

Nicole Ari Parker

I went to an all-girls private school, where we played field hockey and lacrosse.

Nicole Ari Parker

I'm really into nutrition from the inside out.

Nicole Ari Parker

I enjoy using coconut oil - not only for my skin and hair, but I'll digest it.

Nicole Ari Parker

I did everything pretty cliche as an actor in New York. I read the trades, I sent out 'head shots.'

Nicole Ari Parker

Nobody really knows, but I got a little comedy in me.

Nicole Ari Parker

If you're actually talking to someone who's been through a disastrous number of years, that only means one thing: They survived it.

Nicole Ari Parker

It's not how pretty you are or how talented you are. It's that if these five people on this day in this room like you, then you get a job.

Nicole Ari Parker

Author Bio

  • NameNicole Ari Parker
  • DescriptionAmerican actor
  • BornOctober 7, 1970
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Model