Jordan Peele Quotes

Black people who want to do comedy go into standup, where our heroes opened a lot of doors. Improv doesn't have a ton of heroes that you can look to.

Jordan Peele

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 21, 1979

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I could be making a lot more money now if I had chosen a different kind of movie, but none of that matters to me... I've done the parts I wanted to do.

Jessica Lange

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I have dreams that I will reach balance in my life, and, at forty-one, I have none.

Andrew Breitbart

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My fragile connection with the world of polite society has, without a doubt, been severed.

John McAfee

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To underestimate one's thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where one looked for running water - there is no help for any of these things.

Mary Hunter Austin

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The first audition I ever went on, I was accompanied by my mother at the instruction of my father. 'You have to learn how to take rejection if you really want to be an actor,' he said. He had to eat his own words. I got the job.

Michele Lee

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I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them later.

Mitch Hedberg

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Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Liz Smith

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The American people hit the streets and did something that the government wouldn't do: the Civil Rights Act. It didn't go down well with the corporate world.

Dick Van Dyke

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Life is wasted on the living.

Douglas Adams

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If you see me playing a $1/$2 no-limit on PokerStars, I'm probably experimenting with something, trying something new seeing how it works.

Chris Moneymaker

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The Washington Times wrote a story questioning the authenticity of some of the suggestions made about me in Silent Coup. But as a believer in the First Amendment, I believe they have more than a right to air their views.

Bob Woodward

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I wouldn't be able to do the things I do if I hadn't been around and seen the stuff my brothers did.

Apollo Robbins

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