Keegan-Michael Key Quotes
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There's something very simple and contemplative about 'John Wick' - what is interesting is that it looks like it was based on an Akira Kurosawa movie.
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I'm very concerned with what's 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.
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I'm tall and thin but not strong, so you're either an athlete or you're funny.
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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 don't get it, I'm not sure why you are doing it.
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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.
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Surprise is not humor. I think that there can be a fine line there.
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I'm adopted, so I didn't know my father, but apparently he was pretty tall.
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I'm a great consumer of kung-fu movies - mid-'70s to late-'80s.
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When you're 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.
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We live in a gray world, and I want to tell gray stories.
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It's when you're true to yourself that resonates with other people.
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I'm a firm believer in the idea that there are a limited amount of human stories that we tell - there's about seven of them - and of course, there's variations on those stories, and they can take place in infinite places.
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There's a thing called the 'One Drop' theory in African-American culture, which is if you have one drop of black blood in you, you're black.
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Success isn't measured by the amount of people that watch you unless you allow it to be.
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I don't know if people would be surprised by this or not, but I'm kind of into nutrition and weight lifting. I know I'm kind of a slender man, but the human physique fascinates me, and learning about metabolism.
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To make an absolutely gross generalization, I think a lot of people feel like if you're mixed, more often than not you're quote unquote white. So if you're mixed, you embrace the mainstream culture more than the African-American culture.
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I get overwhelmed when I approach things intellectually.
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I love dialects and accents; they're something that really resonate with me and that I find fascinating.
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The immediacy of improvisation is intoxicating, but there's an intimacy that you get that's very different when you're doing drama.
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I would like to invest more of my brain space in understanding the history of my city, because whenever I learn about the history of Detroit, it's always so fascinating, from a little kind of beaver-trading post to the place where automobiles were manufactured.
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You can not have comedy unless people are behaving badly. You can't have it.
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Being a Lions fan is like being a Cubs fan: you just have to keep going. You don't have a choice. You can't give up, because one day, when it happens - and I believe it'll happen - then you can really savor it because you were there in the doldrums, and you get to be there in the victory.
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Bill Murray is such a tremendous talent, but the world wasn't ready for 'Razor's Edge,' for something that thoughtful and with that much depth at that time in his career.
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For me, as a child, I certainly thought that there were more black people in the world than white people.