Jordan Peele Quotes - Page 2

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• [ When I met Barack Obama] He says, I do a pretty good me myself - he said something like that. But he's - he is a close talker. He's a touchy guy.

  Jordan Peele

  Guy, Mets, Said

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Certainly, black horror movie fans have, you know, been particularly vocal. I mean, there's the whole Eddie Murphy routine about, you know, black people in a horror movie wouldn't last very long. Right? They just walk in - you hear get out. Too bad we can't stay, baby.

  Jordan Peele

  Baby, Mean, Long

  Source: www.npr.org

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• What teenagers are ready to laugh at is the misery of other people.

  Jordan Peele

  Teenager, People, Laughing

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

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• You can track elections by who was playing that president on 'SNL' at that time. There's the theory that the more likable or charismatic impression would help get the president elected.

  Jordan Peele

  Track, President, Helping

  "The stars of Key & Peele talk about staying relevant, and funny, in season 2". Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. October 30, 2012.

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• A part of being black in America and, you know, I presume being any minority, is constantly being told that we're being too aware of race somehow, we're obsessed with it or we're seeing racism where there just isn't racism.

  Jordan Peele

  Race, America, Racism

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Obama was the best thing for black nerds everywhere. Finally we had a role model. Before Obama, we basically had Urkel.

  Jordan Peele

  Role Models, Black, Nerd

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• The audience's imagination will do a better, more personalized version of the horror than you can actually paint. So that just, you know, with something like "The Blair Witch Project," which is, you know, whatever, it's 89 minutes of people running through the woods and one minute of, you know, a guy standing in a corner.

  Jordan Peele

  Running, People, Imagination

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I don't think that humans are, in our nature, we're evil or anything like that. But I do think there's a demon in our DNA, in our tribal subconscious that affects the way we work and we operate as a group.

  Jordan Peele

  Thinking, Dna, Evil

  "‘Get Out’ dials up the scary side of race in America". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. March 6, 2017.

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• Nobody wants to see sketch comedy that's the same sketch they've seen time and time again, or that's just a rehash of that thing.

  Jordan Peele

  Want, Comedy, Sketch Comedy

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

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• With a horror movie, you want to know where the engine of the fear is coming from. Like in comedy, you want to know what the engine that's going to make the comedy - where that's coming from.

  Jordan Peele

  Want, Comedy, Horror

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I love dipping into worlds at a fast and furious pace. A little glimpse allows the audience to put together the rest of that world in their brain. I love sketches that require the audience to piece together the comedic engine themselves. Give them all the information but not tell them what the scene is about so they can have that eureka moment of, "Oh my God, he's only used to the way urban students pronounce their names. That's what's going on here.".

  Jordan Peele

  Giving, Brain, Together

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• Back when we were Neanderthals or whatever, we evolved to think along tribal lines. Survival was based on this idea of who are we and who are the others who will come and take our resources. I think it's an animal and a human thing that we all see in terms of us vs. them, and race is a very easy way to separate who is us and who is them.

  Jordan Peele

  Thinking, Animal, Race

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Racism is within each and every one of us.

  Jordan Peele

  Racism

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• We haven't done enough work to encourage minorities to strive to make movies. Hollywood is a place full of white male directors - there are many good ones. We just haven't nurtured our voices.

  Jordan Peele

  Voice, White, Hollywood

  "'Get Out' Is the Horror Flick America Needs Right Now". Interview With Edwin Rios, www.motherjones.com. February 24, 2017.

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• It's very uncomfortable to talk about race. It often devolves before it begins.

  Jordan Peele

  Race, Uncomfortable

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I've always thought of myself as an African-American comedian, African-American man, everything.

  Jordan Peele

  Men, African American, Comedian

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

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• Everybody knows this legend in kind of African-American lore. There's always somebody in your neighborhood named Orangejello or Lemonjello. And that's spelled - Orangejello is spelled O-R-A-N-G-E-J-E-L-L-O.

  Jordan Peele

  African American, Legends, Kind

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I think that is also something he [Barack Obama], in the beginning of his presidency, he couldn't really explore and couldn't show. He had to be almost a one-dimensional, stoic leader during that first election.

  Jordan Peele

  Thinking, Leader, Firsts

  Source: www.npr.org

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• [Barack Obama] will touch you on the shoulder and, you know - in that big brother or father figure kind of way. And you really do feel sort of shepherded by him.

  Jordan Peele

  Brother, Father, Way

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Since we were renamed, and now it feels like 80 percent of the African-American population has the name Washington or Jefferson or some president or slave owner's name. And, I almost wonder is this, like, is this part of a way of taking back the principle of naming your - I might be going too far into this - but naming your kids something of your choice?

  Jordan Peele

  Kids, Names, Slave Owners

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The world has wanted me to speak differently than I speak. You know, I speak like my mom; I speak like, you know, like the whitest white dude; I speak like a Def Comedy Jam comedian doing an impression of a white guy.

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  Mom, White, Guy

  "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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• You never want to be the whitest-sounding black guy in a room.

  Jordan Peele

  Guy, Black, Want

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

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• It's a no-win situation with politics, it's always going to be stressful. I'm more into the comedy of life.

  Jordan Peele

  Winning, Comedy, Stressful

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

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• Anyone who's really utilized collaboration has a philosophy like, 'Let's throw it all against the wall and see what sticks.' That's how we do it. At a certain point, we're cutting scripts that we love.

  Jordan Peele

  Wall, Philosophy, Cutting

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• Any time I claimed to be white, that would be unacceptable. It just doesn't make sense in people's minds. If I'm white, how can I walk through a department store and still have people scared that I'm going to rob them? Which, that can still happen.

  Jordan Peele

  White, People, Mind

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