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Keegan-Michael Key

I get overwhelmed when I approach things intellectually.
— Keegan-Michael Key intellect
When youre a child, the most important thing is to be able to live a life of comfort. You want to be sure that the moon goes up at night and the sun comes up in the morning and dad comes home from work.
— Keegan-Michael Key life
If you look at any successful skit comedy show, ever, there is that format of introducing you to the player in the beginning, and then going on to see those sketches.
— Keegan-Michael Key success
Everybody puts on airs, regardless of race.
— Keegan-Michael Key body
Im adopted, so I didnt know my father, but apparently he was pretty tall.
— Keegan-Michael Key father
When youre a child, the most important thing is to be able to live a life of comfort. You want to be sure that the moon goes up at night and the sun comes up in the morning and dad comes home from work.
— Keegan-Michael Key life
For me, as a child, I certainly thought that there were more black people in the world than white people.
— Keegan-Michael Key people
I get overwhelmed when I approach things intellectually.
— Keegan-Michael Key intellect
If you look at any successful skit comedy show, ever, there is that format of introducing you to the player in the beginning, and then going on to see those sketches.
— Keegan-Michael Key success
It was very important thousands of years ago to categorize things. I can eat that plant, I cant eat that plant. Or this tribe, not that tribe. We dont have to do that anymore - we have processed food now!
— Keegan-Michael Key food
To make an absolutely gross generalization, I think a lot of people feel like if youre mixed, more often than not youre quote unquote white. So if youre mixed, you embrace the mainstream culture more than the African-American culture.
— Keegan-Michael Key people
I have always, or for the most part, identified myself as a biracial person.
— Keegan-Michael Key art
Im adopted, so I didnt know my father, but apparently he was pretty tall.
— Keegan-Michael Key father
Im tall and thin but not strong, so youre either an athlete or youre funny.
— Keegan-Michael Key funny
Surprise is not humor. I think that there can be a fine line there.
— Keegan-Michael Key humor
Theres a thing called the One Drop theory in African-American culture, which is if you have one drop of black blood in you, youre black.
— Keegan-Michael Key culture
You can not have comedy unless people are behaving badly. You cant have it.
— Keegan-Michael Key people
A poet can feel free, in my estimation, to write a poem for himself. Or a painter can paint a painting for himself. You can write a short story for yourself. But for me, comedy by its nature is communal. If other people dont get it, Im not sure why you are doing it.
— Keegan-Michael Key nature
Im very concerned with whats going on the news, but I would not call myself a political animal, per se. I pay more attention during election years, or if I see some topic or issue that I care about. But I would never call myself a political animal or political junkie.
— Keegan-Michael Key self
The audience loves to figure things out. They love it when a performer leaves a trail of bread crumbs for them, and they get to participate in the comedy.
— Keegan-Michael Key love
Being a melting pot is what I think is great about being American, and also that we get to do something that other people dont get to do, we get to be a hyphenate. Thats a good thing.
— Keegan-Michael Key people
There Is Nothing More Dangerous On Planet Earth Than A Black Wife
— Keegan-Michael Key art
Everybody puts on airs, regardless of race.
— Keegan-Michael Key body
My adoptive mother tirelessly worked most of her life to build up my self-esteem. So what happened was finding her started to shed light and destroy my mythos. So for the first year of knowing [biological mother], my mom kind of actually literally visited me in Detroit and kind of gave me a tour of my life - where I was conceived, where I was born, where she found out she was pregnant. It was amazing and very emotional.
— Keegan-Michael Key life
Im racist against non-black people.
— Keegan-Michael Key people
You hold precious what you create for yourself in your life that makes you comfortable.
— Keegan-Michael Key life
Do what you love in your community.
— Keegan-Michael Key love
There is no top. You are never going to reach the top if you go for success. That way lies madness.
— Keegan-Michael Key success
I have this little thing that people call Keegan-ese, where I dont speak English words at all. I just say stuff like, You gotta toish the doish and you gotta maloish the hoish.
— Keegan-Michael Key people
Like every human we have to categorize ourselves, so you kind of start to build a mythos cause I had no information about [ biological mother]. So you have to build a mythos around yourself. And so my mythos included me not being wanted or me being a wretched person, which is just great fertilizer for comedy.
— Keegan-Michael Key art
My father has passed away. He was African-American. My mother is white. So I was adopted by a couple that was of a similar dynamic as my biological parents.
— Keegan-Michael Key america
I think the reason I went into theater, ultimately, was because that was one of multicultural groups. Because you identify with other people that share similar passions to you, so it didnt matter how much melanin was in their skin.
— Keegan-Michael Key people
We[with Jordan Peele] wanted to do something with [Barack] Obama because we actually felt that Obama was kind of responsible for us even getting a show in the first place because theres this biracial person who might, you know, have to ride the divide between two different races.
— Keegan-Michael Key you
I want people to say, Oh my God, Im laughing out loud at television.
— Keegan-Michael Key god
I have always, or for the most part, identified myself as a biracial person. Much to the chagrin of a lot of African-American people that I meet, because its almost like theres a betrayal, an intrinsic betrayal: Dont do that, brotha, we need you. We need you here, in this fold.
— Keegan-Michael Key art
[Adoption] could turn you into an exquisite comedian. Ask Richard Pryors ghost.
— Keegan-Michael Key you

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