Keegan-Michael Key Quotes
I love dialects and accents; they're something that really resonate with me and that I find fascinating.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm happier on the runway than I am on the red carpet. Because then I am not being myself. I think, on the red carpet, it's a weird, like, 'Who am I? Am I me? Am I them?'
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Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
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All that we are not stares back at what we are.
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Every four weeks I go up a bra size... it's worth being pregnant just for the breasts.
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Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their communities. That's the future.
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The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run.
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In the Bronx, you have the southern Italians; in Queens, the Greeks, Koreans and Chinese; in Brooklyn, the Jewish community; and in Harlem, the Hispanics - all with their own markets.
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When I was 17, I used to really think about what I wore every day.
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I've been using makeup since I was ten years old. I've learned a lot of do's and don'ts over the years. But one would definitely be that you should do your makeup for the occasion.
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I grew up in Manhattan, and I've always had all kinds of people around me. I've always had a very 'live and let live' point of view.
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What am I doing in this silly showbiz life? I do wonder that sometimes.
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I know that people can live celibate lives. I did it myself for many years.
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I wish that only three residents of Tel Aviv could see what conditions on the West Bank are like. Living in such proximity, most Israelis have no idea about the adversity on the West Bank.
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We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales.
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So many people have become divorced from the system, criminalised by their lifestyle.
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The major tragedies in life, there's just no compensation. But the minor ones you can always write about. It's my way of dealing, and it's a heck of a lot cheaper than psychiatrists. The story, you see, will get you through.
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I am not sure how much good is done by moralising about fairy tales. This can be unsubtle - telling children that virtue will be rewarded, when in fact it is mostly simply the fact of being the central character that ensures a favourable outcome. Fairy tales are not, on the whole, parables.
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Many heroic actions and chivalrous adventures are related of me which exist only in the regions of fancy. With me the world has taken great liberties, and yet I have been but a common man.
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There were two things I wanted to be: an actor and a hippie.
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I write stories that are already in the air, and I think it's important to have the correct listening device to tune in to that frequency.
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The theme of Death is to Poetry what Mistaken Identity is to Drama.
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I think those guys aren't so young anymore
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I love dialects and accents; they're something that really resonate with me and that I find fascinating.
