49+ Jordan Peele Quotes On Writing, Racism And Get Out

Jordan Peele is an American actor, comedian, writer, director, and producer. He is best known for his work in the sketch comedy show Key & Peele and his Academy Award-winning horror film Get Out. He is also the co-creator of the critically acclaimed television series The Twilight Zone. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Jordan Peele on writing, racism, get out.

Top 10 Jordan Peele Quotes

1. Like comedy, horror has an ability to provoke thought and further the conversation on real social issues in a very powerful way.
2. Sometimes blessings come in strange packages.
3. A greater truth that I think we are faced with on a day-to-day basis as minorities is: We are the color of skin first and people second.
4. I can fathom anything, man. I love biting off more than I can chew and figuring it out.
5. How we act with each other really reveals our most animal instincts.
6. [ When I met Barack Obama] He says, I do a pretty good me myself - he said something like that. But he's - he is a close talker. He's a touchy guy.
7. I just think racism is within each and every one of us. It's everyone's responsibility to figure out how they deal with this kind of obsolete instinct.
8. Nobody wants to see sketch comedy that's the same sketch they've seen time and time again, or that's just a rehash of that thing.
9. When people get together, we are capable of the most beautiful, amazing things. But we are also capable of genocide.
10. Obama was the best thing for black nerds everywhere. Finally we had a role model. Before Obama, we basically had Urkel.

Jordan Peele Short Quotes

• There might be some sinister modern form of slavery going on.
• What teenagers are ready to laugh at is the misery of other people.
• You never want to be the whitest-sounding black guy in a room.
• I was raised that emotion was a good thing.
• I didn't know my father very well; I only met him a few times.
• I think that human beings are the most awful monster we have ever seen.
• It's very uncomfortable to talk about race. It often devolves before it begins.
• I've always thought of myself as an African-American comedian, African-American man, everything.

Jordan Peele Quotes About Racism

A part of being black in America and, you know, I presume being any minority, is constantly being told that we're being too aware of race somehow, we're obsessed with it or we're seeing racism where there just isn't racism. — Jordan Peele

I look at racism as one of the social demons. And, in its worst, it's violent and it's a systemic commitment to oppression. — Jordan Peele

Racism is within each and every one of us. — Jordan Peele

Jordan Peele Quotes About Get Out

You can track elections by who was playing that president on 'SNL' at that time. There's the theory that the more likable or charismatic impression would help get the president elected. — Jordan Peele

The scariest monster in the world is human beings and what we are capable of, especially when we get together. — Jordan Peele

'Get Out' takes on the task of exploring race in America, something that hasn't really been done within the genre since 'Night of the Living Dead' 47 years ago. — Jordan Peele

Certainly, black horror movie fans have, you know, been particularly vocal. I mean, there's the whole Eddie Murphy routine about, you know, black people in a horror movie wouldn't last very long. Right? They just walk in - you hear get out. Too bad we can't stay, baby. — Jordan Peele

Jordan Peele Famous Quotes And Sayings

We need to break boundaries, so every time I feel like, "Oh snap, oh my God, I don't know how this is gonna be received," I also feel this validation, like, "All the greats, all my favorites have felt this." — Jordan Peele

The audience's imagination will do a better, more personalized version of the horror than you can actually paint. So that just, you know, with something like "The Blair Witch Project," which is, you know, whatever, it's 89 minutes of people running through the woods and one minute of, you know, a guy standing in a corner. — Jordan Peele

Back when we were Neanderthals or whatever, we evolved to think along tribal lines. Survival was based on this idea of who are we and who are the others who will come and take our resources. I think it's an animal and a human thing that we all see in terms of us vs. them, and race is a very easy way to separate who is us and who is them. — Jordan Peele

You hear it said time and time again by successful directors: You have to make a movie for yourself. Don't make it for anyone else. My style of filmmaking happens to be give the audience what they know they don't want, but they want. Ultimately I have to write and direct in a way that let's just say, you don't want to regret making a choice. — Jordan Peele

If it's comedy, you taken an absurd comedic notion and you apply it to reality. If it's horror, if it's a thriller, you do the same thing. — Jordan Peele

With a horror movie, you want to know where the engine of the fear is coming from. Like in comedy, you want to know what the engine that's going to make the comedy - where that's coming from. — Jordan Peele

Since we were renamed, and now it feels like 80 percent of the African-American population has the name Washington or Jefferson or some president or slave owner's name. And, I almost wonder is this, like, is this part of a way of taking back the principle of naming your - I might be going too far into this - but naming your kids something of your choice? — Jordan Peele

I'd been taught from an early age that I was in the other category on the standardized tests. You know, I had to go down the checklist - Caucasian, African-American, Latino, Asian-Pacific Islander, and then, you know, at the bottom is other. So, you know, very early on I was taught, in a way, that I was somehow this anomaly. — Jordan Peele

It's a no-win situation with politics, it's always going to be stressful. I'm more into the comedy of life. — Jordan Peele

I've been very lucky to have a family who has welcomed me and not been hung up on anything racial, almost overlooking the fact that there was a racial difference. But I can honestly say I do feel like I missed out on some lessons of what the African-American experience is like growing up. — Jordan Peele

We haven't done enough work to encourage minorities to strive to make movies. Hollywood is a place full of white male directors - there are many good ones. We just haven't nurtured our voices. — Jordan Peele

[Barack Obama] will touch you on the shoulder and, you know - in that big brother or father figure kind of way. And you really do feel sort of shepherded by him. — Jordan Peele

The conversation about race is inevitable. It's one that people know that we have to have and continue to have. — Jordan Peele

The world has wanted me to speak differently than I speak. You know, I speak like my mom; I speak like, you know, like the whitest white dude; I speak like a Def Comedy Jam comedian doing an impression of a white guy. — Jordan Peele

I don't think that humans are, in our nature, we're evil or anything like that. But I do think there's a demon in our DNA, in our tribal subconscious that affects the way we work and we operate as a group. — Jordan Peele

Any time I claimed to be white, that would be unacceptable. It just doesn't make sense in people's minds. If I'm white, how can I walk through a department store and still have people scared that I'm going to rob them? Which, that can still happen. — Jordan Peele

Anyone who's really utilized collaboration has a philosophy like, 'Let's throw it all against the wall and see what sticks.' That's how we do it. At a certain point, we're cutting scripts that we love. — Jordan Peele

With a horror movie, you're making a metaphor. You're making a personalized nightmare for the protagonist. — Jordan Peele

We can convince ourselves to do things in conjunction with one another that we wouldn't have been able to do as an individual. — Jordan Peele

For me, the social thriller is the thriller in which the fears, the horrors, and the thrills are coming from society. They're coming from the way humans interact. — Jordan Peele

Race is a universal flaw in humanity. So yes, I've been in many situations where I've felt like the outsider because of the color of my skin. — Jordan Peele

As kids, there's somehow the fear that these bullies can end your life if they want to. Everything is blown up, and occasionally that kind of awful thing does happen. — Jordan Peele

Everybody knows this legend in kind of African-American lore. There's always somebody in your neighborhood named Orangejello or Lemonjello. And that's spelled - Orangejello is spelled O-R-A-N-G-E-J-E-L-L-O. — Jordan Peele

I think that is also something he [Barack Obama], in the beginning of his presidency, he couldn't really explore and couldn't show. He had to be almost a one-dimensional, stoic leader during that first election. — Jordan Peele

Life Lessons by Jordan Peele

1. Jordan Peele has demonstrated that it is possible to use art and entertainment to explore social issues and create meaningful discourse.
2. He has shown that creativity and innovation can be used to challenge the status quo and create something new.
3. His work has highlighted the importance of representation and inclusivity in media and the value of diverse perspectives.