Khandi Alexander Quotes

The hardest thing about this industry is not working.

My God, I could raise a family of six children and hold down a full-time job with all the energy I expend on depression!

As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it.

The feeling of insecurity is inimical to our sense of wellbeing, as it causes anxiety and stress, which harms our physical and mental health. It is no surprise then that, according to some surveys, workers across the world value job security more highly than wages.

I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its toll on all my relationships, on my physical health, my emotional and mental health.

After 'The Real Thing,' I thought about giving up acting because it's difficult to have a rich life outside your work when you're an actress, a private life that can survive being picked up and put down. That's what I thought, anyway.

I have a theory that burnout is about resentment. And you beat it by knowing what it is you're giving up that makes you resentful.

I would rather not work than be a neurotic mess.

Being a football manager is no fun at all. You have to put up with all the hassle. It is not surprising that so many turn grey or have heart attacks.

I love this profession, but God, it can just destroy people, and I don't want that to happen and become some monster.

If you do things when you're burned out, it'll make you bitter.

I miss 'EastEnders.' I loved it. But I was exhausted when I left. They asked me to go back recently - they've asked a few times. I am tempted! But my husband Scott says you have to really think about it. Because, towards the end, I was so exhausted and not sleeping at night. I'm not quite ready for it.

I usually spend my free time worrying about when I'm going to work next.

I don't get ulcers. I give 'em.

I like working, I just don't like to get involved in the competitiveness of it.

Sometimes, you're going 24 hours a day, seven days a week for a few months, and then you come home, and you wonder what you're doing with your life and why. At least, that's the experience I've had.

There's always pressure. People's happiness depends on you; they suffer with you. You get used to it, but you have to know how to handle it.

It's real easy to be in the WWE and let your passion or your pain or the schedule put you in a bad place.

I'm much more aware of how distraught my father could be internally. That was normal to me - the obsession with work, the crazy hours - and when I watch it on screen I really see how enveloped he was by show business to the point where he didn't develop much of another life. Everything was show business to him.

With respect to keeping your sanity, the more you are dedicated to your job, the more you think about it. And there is so much to think about for the director.

Stress is part of life. It is something we all experience from time to time. Sometimes it reflects our own busy lifestyles or key moments such as exams, moving house, organising an event, or coping with a bereavement. Often it is associated with work: meeting a deadline, dealing with difficult people, or meeting stretching targets.

We all know what this business can do to you... you end up walking on your heels.

It is not work that kills, but "worry."

I dare anyone to spend 10 years in the laugh-track that is Chuck Lorre's hive of oppression and not suffer some form of an emotional tsunami.

If you let the reality of the business side get to you, it can turn you, and that's not good at all.