Latest Keegan-Michael Key Quotes from Interviews

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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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• We've decided [with Jordan Peele] that we need to be on the Internet for a little bit of time every day to figure out what's going on. It feels like we're working. It feels like you're all typing and you're searching.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Jordan, Needs, Littles

  Source: www.esquire.com

• If you take something like the slave-auction sketch, the warmth of the light gives it a crisp 12 Years a Slave look. And your eye tells your brain, "I should be taking this seriously."

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Eye, Light, Years

  Source: www.esquire.com

• [The rumor that Leonardo DiCaprio on set was raped by a bear] was as silly as Lady Gaga bumping him or moving his arm out of the way [at the Golden Globes]. People straight be bored.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Silly, Moving, Bored

  Source: www.esquire.com

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

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Television, Canada, Grew Up

  Source: www.esquire.com

• My favorite, favorite, favorite, and the greatest comedian that could ever exist if you could Frankenstein a comedian together, would be one part Richard Pryor, one part Peter Sellers. That would be the greatest comic actor.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Comedian, Together, Would Be

  Source: www.esquire.com

• 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

• We've caught people watching us, and I'll look at them and I'll go, "It's just us. It's just our thing. It's just what we do."

  Keegan-Michael Key

  People, Looks, Caught

  Source: www.esquire.com

• We share plates [with Jordan Peele], and we also very often will sit in the corner and kind of speak in our own language.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Jordan, Language, Kind

  Source: www.esquire.com

• One time I said to Jordan [Peele], in a text, "I will pick you up at 2:30. So if you're just standing out in front of the building, we'll go from there to the next meeting. Cool?" And my man just writes, "Wordness to the turdness."

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Writing, Men, Next

  Source: www.esquire.com

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• [Adoption] could turn you into an exquisite comedian. Ask Richard Pryor's ghost.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Adoption, Comedian, Ghost

  Source: www.npr.org

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• My father has passed away. He was African-American. My mother is white. So I was adopted by a couple that was of a similar dynamic as my biological parents.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Mother, Couple, Father

  "For Key And Peele, Biracial Roots Bestow Special Comedic 'Power'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 31, 2015.

• 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

• 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.