Keegan-Michael Key Quotes

I love dialects and accents; they're something that really resonate with me and that I find fascinating.

Keegan-Michael Key

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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?'

  

  Kate Moss
  • Happy
  • Red
  • Carpet

• Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Beauty
  • Most
  • Distress

• All that we are not stares back at what we are.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Back

• Every four weeks I go up a bra size... it's worth being pregnant just for the breasts.

  

  Natasha Hamilton
  • Up
  • Being
  • Size

• Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their communities. That's the future.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Kids
  • Future
  • Coffee

• 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.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Up
  • Home
  • Alone

• 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.

  

  Becky G
  • You
  • Years
  • Makeup

• 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.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • People
  • Live
  • Always

• What am I doing in this silly showbiz life? I do wonder that sometimes.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Life
  • Wonder
  • Silly

• 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.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Wish
  • Adversity
  • I Wish

• We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Live
  • May
  • Teacher

• So many people have become divorced from the system, criminalised by their lifestyle.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • System
  • Lifestyle

• 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.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Life
  • Way
  • Story

• 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.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Good
  • Children
  • Done

• 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.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • World
  • Great
  • Taken

• En somme, je fais ce que je peux, je souffre de la souffrance universelle, et je tâche de la soulager, je n'ai que les chétives forces d'un homme, et je crie à tous: aidez-moi.

  

  Victor Hugo

• In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • World
  • Simple

• My mother had a look on her face that I'll never forget. It was one of complete despair and horror, for losing Bing, for being so foolish as to think she could use faith to change fate.

  

  Amy Tan
  • She
  • Mother
  • Faith

• I did a pop album, 'Sogno,' in 1999. I think it's important to record another pop album because many people love pop music. By this kind of repertoire, some people can later discover classical music.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • People
  • Music
  • Important

• I don't own everything, I do have a partner.

  

  Mickey Gilley
  • Partners

• Each of us, deep down, believes that the whole world issues from his own precious body, like images projected from a tiny slide onto an earth-sized screen. And then, deeper down, each of us knows he's wrong.

  

  Chad Harbach
  • Life
  • World
  • Earth

• With luck, a writer capable of producing both Slouching Towards Kalamazoo and The Blood of the Lamb will not remain unappreciated for long.

  

  Adam Kirsch
  • Luck
  • Blood
  • Writer

• I love dialects and accents; they're something that really resonate with me and that I find fascinating.

  

  Keegan-Michael Key