Keegan-Michael Key Quotes

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• You hold precious what you create for yourself in your life that makes you comfortable.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Comfortable

  "For Key And Peele, Biracial Roots Bestow Special Comedic 'Power'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 20, 2013.

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• There's a sketch where we're playing two terrorists in a cave, and my terrorist is very frustrated as to why we haven't flown a plane into a building in 13 years.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Years, Two, Frustrated

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• You can not have comedy unless people are behaving badly. You can't have it.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  People, Comedy, Behaving Badly

  "Key & Peele: 'That’s what Obama should say'". Interview with Willa Paskin, www.salon.com. October 7, 2012.

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• Do what you love in your community.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Community, What You Love

  "How Mike Birbiglia and Keegan-Michael Key found common comedy ground: 'He helped me ‘make less’ of it'". Interview with Gary M. Kramer, www.salon.com. July 23, 2016.

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• Being a melting pot is what I think is great about being American, and also that we get to do something that other people don't get to do, we get to be a hyphenate. That's a good thing.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Thinking, People, Melting

  "Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele of Key & Peele". Interview With Jesse Thorn, tv.avclub.com. March 20, 2012.

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• I think the reason I went into theater, ultimately, was because that was one of multicultural groups. Because you identify with other people that share similar passions to you, so it didn't matter how much melanin was in their skin.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Passion, Thinking, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• There is no top. You are never going to reach the top if you go for success. That way lies madness.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Lying, Way, Madness

  "How Mike Birbiglia and Keegan-Michael Key found common comedy ground: 'He helped me ‘make less’ of it'". Interview with Gary M. Kramer, www.salon.com. July 23, 2016.

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• I'm racist against non-black people.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  People, Black, Racist

  "Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele of Key & Peele". Interview With Jesse Thorn, www.avclub.com. March 20, 2012.

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• The audience loves to figure things out. They love it when a performer leaves a trail of bread crumbs for them, and they get to participate in the comedy.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Bread, Comedy, Crumbs

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• Ricky Gervais changed our lives. And Mitch Hedberg, who we're like, "Oh, that's funny to me on a level I don't think I understand. But I'm clearly pleased by it beyond something that my brain's figured out." He was amazing.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Thinking, Brain, Levels

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• To make an absolutely gross generalization, I think a lot of people feel like if you're mixed, more often than not you're quote unquote white. So if you're mixed, you embrace the mainstream culture more than the African-American culture.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Thinking, White, Mainstream Culture

  "Key & Peele: 'That’s what Obama should say'". Interview with Willa Paskin, www.salon.com. October 7, 2012.

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• My adoptive mother tirelessly worked most of her life to build up my self-esteem. So what happened was finding her started to shed light and destroy my mythos. So for the first year of knowing her, my mom kind of actually literally visited me in Detroit and kind of gave me a tour of my life - where I was conceived, where I was born, where she found out she was pregnant. It was amazing, Terry, and very emotional.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Mom, Mother, Self Esteem

  "For Key And Peele, Biracial Roots Bestow Special Comedic 'Power'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 20, 2013.

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• When you say to somebody, "I'd like to recommend a book to you," you're typically talking to a person who is willing to learn, grow, or change.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Book

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I grew up watching British television because I lived so close to Canada.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Television, Canada, Grew Up

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• When you're a child, the most important thing is to be able to live a life of comfort. You want to be sure that the moon goes up at night and the sun comes up in the morning and dad comes home from work.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Morning, Children, Dad

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• A poet can feel free, in my estimation, to write a poem for himself. Or a painter can paint a painting for himself. You can write a short story for yourself. But for me, comedy by its nature is communal. If other people don't get it, I'm not sure why you are doing it.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Writing, People, Stories

  "EXCLUSIVE: Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele Talk Key & Peele Series Premiere". Interview with B.Alan Orange, movieweb.com. January 31, 2012.

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• There is nothing more dangerous on planet Earth than a black wife.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Wife, Black, Earth

  "Brother from Another Mother" by Zadie Smith, www.newyorker.com. February 23 & March 2, 2015.

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• Everybody puts on airs, regardless of race.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Race, Air

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• You could figure out at least 80 percent of the context and meaning of a text if people used punctuation, and we wouldn't have had to write our sketch.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Writing, People, Punctuation

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I have always, or for the most part, identified myself as a biracial person. Much to the chagrin of a lot of African-American people that I meet, because it's almost like there's a betrayal, an intrinsic betrayal: "Don't do that, brotha, we need you. We need you here, in this fold."

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Betrayal, People, African American

  "Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele of Key & Peele". Interview With Jesse Thorn, tvclub.kinja.com. March 20, 2012.

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• If I could just get over my issues of wanting people to like me.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  People

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The fact of the matter is, you can't do comedy unless someone is behaving badly. Otherwise, it's not a comedy.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Comedy

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I have this little thing that people call Keegan-ese, where I don't speak English words at all. I just say stuff like, "You gotta toish the doish and you gotta maloish the hoish."

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Speak English, People, English Words

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• We[with Jordan Peele] wanted to do something with [Barack] Obama because we actually felt that Obama was kind of responsible for us even getting a show in the first place because there's this biracial person who might, you know, have to ride the divide between two different races.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Race, Two, Different

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Like every human we have to categorize ourselves, so you kind of start to build a mythos 'cause I had no information about [ biological mother]. So you have to build a mythos around yourself. And so my mythos included me not being wanted or me being a wretched person, which is just great fertilizer for comedy.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Mother, Information, Causes

  Source: www.npr.org

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