Keegan-Michael Key Quotes

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

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• I think people come and go, 'I'm going to find the real Gary. What is it... the real Gary? I've got to find it.' But the thing is, it's pretty much what you see is what you get. I'm just like this. There's no hidden viciousness.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Real
  • Think

• If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Up
  • America
  • Opinion

• A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • God
  • Men
  • Service

• Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

  

  Zhuangzi
  • Education
  • Form
  • Rewards

• A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.

  

  Saadi
  • Great
  • Together
  • Single

• In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Kind
  • Fall
  • Boy

• I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to the chapters. I think that the characters write themselves in some degree.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Book
  • Think
  • Want

• I don't want to come off as one of those artists that's not down to earth and real.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Real
  • Want
  • Earth

• We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Trying
  • Death
  • Forever

• I had what AA calls 'a convincer' – which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Done
  • End
  • Realize

• A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.

  

  Adam Draper
  • You
  • Succeed
  • Where

• I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • True
  • College
  • Child

• I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script. And that means that I need to do it, because the things that scare you only make you better and stronger.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Me
  • Better
  • Stronger

• I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Kids
  • Know
  • Old

• Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Rich
  • Security
  • More

• I cannot approach someone; I lack the confidence when it comes to the guy I desire. I'm very good when it comes to matchmaking and hooking others up. But I can't help my own cause.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Up
  • Good
  • Help

• I work in areas related to child protection and family safety, women's empowerment, the creation of opportunities for youth, and culture and tourism. Daunting? Yes. Impossible? No. In fact, such challenges energize me.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Work
  • Women
  • Family

• I think globalization is a great thing. And now a lot of people complain about globalization; a lot of people don't like, you know, the globalize of the concept, the idea of the results. I think the globalization is a great idea and to create a lot of jobs.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Great
  • Globalization

• The very eagle, destined to soar so high and to see so far, begins his life in the fissures of the rocks, and in his early days only sees the arid and sometimes fetid borders of his eyry.

  

  Alphonse de Lamartine
  • Life
  • High

• Everybody has their reasons.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • Reasons
  • Everybody

• When I was growing up, I would go hang out with older guys at night in blues clubs.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • Up
  • Night
  • Growing

• Today we are united, strong and on the move. Today we have a strong strike fund. Today we have the resources to run large-scale organizing campaigns against global employers. Today we have $100 million in the bank.

  

  James P. Hoffa
  • Today
  • Strong

• I wanted to stay hooked because it was the first time I've been part of the tradition where forgetting was just fine. You do it, you try, you forget, you fail.

  

  Laurie Anderson
  • Tradition
  • Fail
  • Forgetting

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

  

  Keegan-Michael Key
  • Father
  • Pretty