Kim Coles Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

Kim: My worst date was with this guy I met in college who had raw onions on his burger. We sat in his car talking and I swore I could see a blue funk coming out of his mouth. No kiss good night; I would have fainted!

Kim: I'm sure we've all been in places where the clerk in a department store didn't even look up, because I'm, to her, just some black woman, but then they finally look up, it's Kim Fields or Kim Coles, and it's oohhhohhhh. It's sad to me. I went to New Orleans this past weekend and people stared at me like I wasn't even human. I don't walk around like I think I'm hot stuff. We're regular people.

Kim (About reality TV): If you don't beat them, you have to join them.

Kim: I think politicians are funny because they take themselves so seriously.

Kim (On her 'Frasier' role): Dr. Mary wasn't evil. Frasier just gave her an opportunity and she ran a little too far with it.

Trivia

In 1994, Kim was one of several Fox stars who filmed 10 second promotional spots for the NFL on Fox--the campaign's slogan was "same game, new attitude."

In 1985 she married her best friend Aton Edwards. The marriage ended 10 years later.

The NAACP Image Awards have nominated Kim for an award 4 times--in 1996, 1997, and 1998 Best Actress for Living Single and in 2000 Best Supporting Actress for her role in Frasier.

Author of the book I'm Free, but It'll Cost You: The Single Life According to Kim Coles.