Khandi Alexander Quotes

I don't want to play fat cops for the rest of my life.

Any time you're a type, your career's over.

I don't know what's wrong with me - I don't know why I only get picked to play strange characters!

I'm in a position where I'm being continually knocked back for the kind of independent films I want to be in because people don't know who I am.

I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a certain level of role. And I was - because I had graphic instances of it - handicapped by the success of Star Trek. A director would say, 'I don't want Jean-Luc Picard in my movie' - and this was compounded by X-Men as well.

I left 'Dr Who' after 18 months, as my character was going nowhere. In truth, I wished I had never gone into it. Afterwards, all the scripts that came my way were for 15-year olds.

That was my one big Hollywood hit, but, in a way, it hurt my picture career. After that, I was typecast as a lion, and there just weren't many parts for lions.

I've played a lot of bad guys, 'cause that was the only work I could get. People saw my face and went 'oooh'.

I haven't had a problem with being typecast, but if I was only getting one type of role, I wouldn't mind. What I'm worried about is not working.

If you get your foot in the door doing one kind of part, that's the kind of role they call you for. I can't say I resent it - then I would resent my whole career.

It become totally untenable to me that after acting for 25 years - I've played Juliet, Cleopatra and Anne Frank - there I was, sitting in Hollywood, just waiting for somebody to want me.

Sometimes people offer you plays, they offer you parts, but they only offer it because I'm famous.

I think that I've been pigeon-holed by virtue of the fact that I've spent so much time in front of a green screen.

After The Wizard Of Oz I was typecast as a lion, and there aren't all that many parts for lions.

I created 'The Guild' because nobody was offering me the roles I thought I could do best at in Hollywood.

Hollywood typecast me as the secretary. I could have worked as the quirky secretary for the rest of my life, but I decided not to do that.

I took the role of Rochelle in 'Everybody Hates Chris,' and that was it. I was going to play mother roles all the time. Once you do one mother role, it's always a trickle down effect.

I can't get the serious roles. People don't see me that way.

I don't really want to play Will Poulter for the rest of my life, because that's boring.

I'm sure all actors have trouble. The guy who always plays the funny guy, he wants to be taken seriously. And there's the action guy who wants to do serious stuff. Everyone's grass is greener.

I've spent a lot of time playing roles that didn't really challenge me. I suppose every actor feels that way.

I was thrust, excitingly, via 'Elizabeth' and 'Shakespeare in Love,' into a position one can only dream of, but it was startling, too. I was offered a multitude of roles riding horses in flouncy shirts, and I just thought, 'Hang on, I've just done that. What next?'

I am not at a level where I will be flooded with offers. Hopefully, things will change after 'Pink.' It is one film after 'Shaitan' where I am hoping things will change for me.

Well, to tell you honestly, I am still waiting for much better roles. And I am slightly surprised that despite seeing the quality and hard work, the Hindi film industry is still not creating projects that I can be a part of.

For years, they cast me in these dumb straight roles of businessmen in three-piece suits.