Khandi Alexander quotes:

This hiatus coming up I'm looking at a comedy because I need the balance.

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.

There's nothing worse than having a very strong female character and then suddenly having it go away.

Talk about divine intervention. I can't even tell you how blessed I feel.

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.'

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.

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.

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.

I have deep comedic roots, and I want to be funny.

I like comedy, I love it very much, I love laughing.

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.

I'm not a method actress.

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.