American - Actress | September 4, 1957 -
I have always loved Scott Foley.
Khandi Alexander
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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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I never saw a consistent through-line of employment for black actresses. I was like, 'How are they supporting themselves?'
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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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I love playing characters that are unrecognizable.
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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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I love that movie 'Chicago.'
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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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I really enjoy working on 'Scandal.' It's so much fun.
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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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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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