Keegan-Michael Key Quotes - Page 2

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• I want people to say, "Oh my God, I'm laughing out loud at television."

  Keegan-Michael Key

  People, Laughing, Television

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

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

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Adoption, Comedian, Ghost

  Source: www.npr.org

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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.

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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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• 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

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• For me, as a child, I certainly thought that there were more black people in the world than white people.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Children, White, People

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

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• I get overwhelmed when I approach things intellectually.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Overwhelmed, Approach

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• I have always, or for the most part, identified myself as a biracial person.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Biracial, Persons

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

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• I'm adopted, so I didn't know my father, but apparently he was pretty tall.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Father, Adopted, Knows

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• It was very important thousands of years ago to categorize things. I can eat that plant, I can't eat that plant. Or this tribe, not that tribe. We don't have to do that anymore - we have processed food now!

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Years, Important, Tribes

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• I'm tall and thin but not strong, so you're either an athlete or you're funny.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Strong, Athlete, Not Strong

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• Surprise is not humor. I think that there can be a fine line there.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Thinking, Lines, Surprise

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• If you look at any successful skit comedy show, ever, there is that format of introducing you to the player in the beginning, and then going on to see those sketches.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Successful, Player, Looks

  "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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• I'm very concerned with what's going on the news, but I would not call myself a political animal, per se. I pay more attention during election years, or if I see some topic or issue that I care about. But I would never call myself a political animal or political junkie.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Animal, Years, Issues

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

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• There's a thing called the 'One Drop' theory in African-American culture, which is if you have one drop of black blood in you, you're black.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Blood, African American, Black

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