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.

Keegan-Michael Key

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.

Keegan-Michael Key

I'm tall and thin but not strong, so you're either an athlete or you're funny.

Keegan-Michael Key

There's a very famous South African playwright named Athol Fugard, and I'd be in any play he's ever did.

Keegan-Michael Key

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.

Keegan-Michael Key

The immediacy of improvisation is intoxicating, but there's an intimacy that you get that's very different when you're doing drama.

Keegan-Michael Key

I want to make movies and pieces of television and pieces of art that crack everyone's assumptions.

Keegan-Michael Key

I get overwhelmed when I approach things intellectually.

Keegan-Michael Key

I have always, or for the most part, identified myself as a biracial person.

Keegan-Michael Key

For me, as a child, I certainly thought that there were more black people in the world than white people.

Keegan-Michael Key

You can not have comedy unless people are behaving badly. You can't have it.

Keegan-Michael Key

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

Keegan-Michael Key

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.

Keegan-Michael Key

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.

Keegan-Michael Key

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.

Keegan-Michael Key

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.

Keegan-Michael Key

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

Keegan-Michael Key

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.

Keegan-Michael Key

It was very important thousands of years ago to categorize things. I can eat that plant, I can't eat that plant. Or this tribe, not that tribe. We don't have to do that anymore - we have processed food now!

Keegan-Michael Key

Everybody puts on airs, regardless of race.

Keegan-Michael Key

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