Khandi Alexander Quotes

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.

Khandi Alexander

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 4, 1957

Topics

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In Washington, I found myself as a 31-year-old in a room with the president, vice president, and secretaries of state and defense, and I was unfazed by it. But get me around a rock star I grew up with and I have trouble completing sentences.

Joe Scarborough

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Women love to be asked more about their clothes than their work. We're dolls; we made a wish to become alive.

Jenny Slate

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The Tambors were conservative Jews, and we attended Temple Beth Shalom at 14th Avenue and Clement Street in San Francisco. We were the only Jewish family for miles. To me, being Jewish meant 'otherness.'

Jeffrey Tambor

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While actors play with guns for make-believe, the guns themselves are by no means make-believe; they're real. Even when the actor is using blanks, there are all kinds of safety protocols to follow when shooting one at someone. Pulling the trigger is the easy part.

Trieste Kelly Dunn

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I don't get myself caught up in the rhetoric of any personal comments that are made.

Roger Goodell

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That's what records do: represent a compressed, heightened version of the sound. Because of the compression of the tubes and microphones and the wax, it's magic!

Ry Cooder

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There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.

Mary Kay Ash

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There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever. It's not limited to disco or soul or hip-hop or anything.

Don Cornelius

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It's very important that we all have a common understanding of our purpose as a business - what we aspire to - and a strategy for achieving it.

Dennis Muilenburg

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Years ago, I worked in a newspaper office, and there were men that would have fits of temper, and it was just accepted that that's who they were, and everyone would laugh about it, but if a woman got upset or angry, something wasn't right: she was 'hysterical' or 'a little unhinged.' It didn't have the same sort of connotation at all.

Claire Messud

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All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

Bob Dylan

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I love period dramas - be it romance or philosophy.

Ashish Sharma

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