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

• 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.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • You
  • Community
  • Chinese

• When I was 17, I used to really think about what I wore every day.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Think
  • Day
  • Everyday

• 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 know that people can live celibate lives. I did it myself for many years.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • Live
  • Myself

• 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

• Trust me, all this fuss over freedoms would fade in a mushroom-cloud moment if there were another attack on our soil.

  

  Neil Cavuto
  • Trust

• Church leaders—including pastoral staff, elders, deacons, and leadership teams—must see community as a biblical nonnegotiable, an essential for transformation, a necessity for building lives that stand the test of time.

  

  Ed Stetzer
  • Community
  • Church
  • Transformation

• It's life, so you're a constant evolution of tragedies and achievements and ups and downs. You can probably get a little bit more immune to things, but whatever is the most amount of pain you feel at any given moment feels like the most amount of pain you'll ever feel.

  

  Jeff Baena
  • Life
  • Pain

• Men, in fact, are excited and looking forward to settling down and having families and being true partners with women in relationships that are full of excitement, unpredictability, adventure, and loyalty.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • Men
  • Women
  • True

• Regardless of theology or however you see life or relate to worshiping God, as an artist, my job is to tell the truth and then try to connect with these characters and people as honestly and deeply as possible.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Life
  • God

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

  

  Keegan-Michael Key