Quotes by Khandi Alexander - Page 1

I'm not a method actress.
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Actresses
Method
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I love that movie 'Chicago.'
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Chicago
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Stupidity took me pretty far.
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Stupidity
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I have always loved Scott Foley.
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Always Loved
Scott
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I have deep comedic roots, and I want to be funny.
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Comedic
Roots
Want
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I like comedy, I love it very much, I love laughing.
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Comedy
Laughing
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I really enjoy working on 'Scandal.' It's so much fun.
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Scandal
So Much Fun
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This hiatus coming up I'm looking at a comedy because I need the balance.
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Balance
Hiatus
Needs
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Talk about divine intervention. I can't even tell you how blessed I feel.
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Blessed
Divine
Feels
Intervention
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I had always done theater during the entire six years I was with 'CSI: Miami.'
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Csi
Miami
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There's nothing worse than having a very strong female character and then suddenly having it go away.
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Female
Strong Female
Female Character
Go Away
Suddenly
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I don't know anyone who's 100 percent pure - nor do I have any interest in portraying anyone like that.
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Percent
Portraying
Pure
Nor
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I never saw a consistent through-line of employment for black actresses. I was like, 'How are they supporting themselves?'
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Consistent
Employment
Supporting
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I think, often times, it's the audience that suffers when a show isn't given the opportunity to have a beginning, middle and end.
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Opportunity
Suffering
Thinking
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I said, 'I'll give myself two years. If I can't support myself as an actress within two years, then I'll go back to choreography.'
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Choreography
Giving
Two
Years
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I started a list of all my friends who had died of AIDS, and I stopped at 78. I think about things like that, and I'm just real glad to be here.
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Aids
Glad
All My Friends
List
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I never get recognized. Most of the time, when people think they know me, they believe I'm a member of their family. And that's the way I like it. That's just fine.
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Recognized
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I don't like to be pigeonholed; I don't like when people won't see me for something because they don't think I can do it. I always feel like, at least give me the shot.
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Give Me
Giving
People
Thinking
Me People Feel
Shot
Pigeonholed
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On 'Scandal,' the majority of the cast, if not all of the cast, comes from theater, so it's a healthy environment. People come into work and actually go home to their families.
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Healthy Environment
Scandal
Work Home People
Go Home
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I feel that the work that I have done in the comedy arena, is priceless in terms of what I learned, timing, everything that these incredibly talented performers were generous enough in teaching me.
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Arena
Comedy
Done
Generous
Performers
Priceless
Teaching
Timing
Work Me Feel
Work Enough Done
Talented
Incredibly
Terms
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When you stop to take a minute and look at Queen Latifah's career, she came out of the box right. You know, 'Ladies First!' And she's been consistent with that message of female self-empowerment. She really has!
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Consistent
Queen
Ladies
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So the only things I was being allowed to audition for were small roles in comedies. It broke my heart. No one would see me for anything else. I knew, in order to open up my career, I had to leave or that's all I would ever be given.
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Broke
Careers
Heart
Order
Anything Else
Audition
Comedies
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In the case of 'News Radio,' I loved that show. I loved the actors and the producers, but I was longing very much for something more to sink my teeth into me. I think it was an incredibly smart show, but I found myself on the peripheral of a lot of it.
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Longing
Producers
Teeth
Incredibly
Myself Me Smart
Peripheral
Sink
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People come into work and actually go home to their families. They want to go there and explore and have a good time, but they also want to go home, which is the best kind of working environment. You go in and do your job, and then you go home and enjoy your life.
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Jobs
Home
People
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When you've worked as long as I have, which I'm truly grateful for, you go in and out of these different environments. Sometimes it's not so much fun or easy or healthy. Sometimes you're fighting a lot of things off-camera that have nothing to do with the work on-camera.
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Environments
So Much Fun
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