Top 60 Keke Palmer Quotes

Staying stagnant is not okay.

Queen Latifah has been a huge part of my career. She has been a huge, huge part of my career since the very beginning.

I like the medium boys. Not real perfect, but not too bad, either.

I grew up loving horror films. But I had to step away since I didn’t want all that negative stuff in my psyche. I didn’t want to conceptualize those thoughts into my life.

Team playing, that’s what I see when I’m out there watching the WNBA games. All the girls play as a team, and they have each other’s backs, and that’s great.

I love being in the studio. Expressing myself that way is really cool.

I was bullied a lot as a kid in school from kindergarten up to third grade. I know what it feels like to be left out and to want to be different – more so, to want to not be different and want to just fit in.

There’s not always going to be something out there for you, especially not a positive role, so once you get up there and start being well known, you can’t just think projects will come to you. You have to start doing your own projects because if you don’t, you’ll miss out, and eventually your fame will be over.

My parents are my role models. All they’ve done for me, they’re just major people in my life. They’ve stood by me and got me where I am today.

I love music and I love acting. I always keep that in the forefront, not all the other distractions around me.

I believe your reality is what you make it, what you choose to see, and what you choose to allow yourself to do. There are possibilities all around you – magic all around you – no matter what situation you’re in.

I definitely want to play someone who’s inspired me. I would love to play Aaliyah; it would be personal because I love her so much.

Giving back, doing motivational speeches and stuff like that, that’s always made me feel good. If you repeatedly go out there, and you are the change that you want to see, then that’s what you are.

Whatever my situation is, I want to show that I’m not perfect, and perfect isn’t real. The youth need to know that, especially.

I’m an actor. I have to play weird characters, quirky characters, strange characters, sometimes characters I don’t understand.

When I was, like, 5 years old, I used to pray to have light skin because I would always hear how pretty that little light skin girl was, or I would hear I was pretty to be dark skin. It wasn’t until I was 13 that I really learned to appreciate my skin color and know that I was beautiful.

I’ve done a lot of meditation studying on my own, but I’ve also taken a couple of transcendence classes.

I don’t feel the need to define nothin’ to nobody, because I’m always changing. Why say that I’m this or that when I might not be tomorrow? I’m gonna follow my own feelings and my own heart.

I’m a little bit sillier than past Cinderellas… at least, I am so far. But it’s only the second day into rehearsal!

When I was a kid, people people would always say, ‘Oh you look like Chilli from TLC.’ It wasn’t until I did ‘Akeelah and the Bee’ that people started saying I looked like Angela Bassett, but before then it was Chilli.

Anytime you see Beyonce, Jay Z, Kanye West. Anytime a young black person’s doing good, that’s motivation for everybody else. Anytime, anytime, it’s motivation. Use that fuel to push you forward. That’s what I did.

I can dance. I like hip hop and stuff and jazz movements, but I’m horrible in ballet. I tried.

You’re going to have to speak up for yourself – and I learned that after always being, for lack of a better word, crapped on.

It’s hard being a Broadway actor going into film where you have to tone everything down. In theater, everything you’re taught is to be big and broad and make everyone feel like they are right next to you, even in the last row of seats.

I love singing and I love performing and just making things perfect.

I’ve never really had a first date! Well, I had kind of a first date. I went out with this kid. We went ice skating, but it was not fun. It was so terrible that I told him my curfew was a lot earlier than it really was.

My father’s a deacon, my mother’s a choir director, so I grew up in the church and singing in the choir, begging my mom if I could have a solo.

Actually, Keke is my nickname. When I was little, my sister was about four years old, and she had an imaginary friend named Keke. And she wanted my name to be Keke.

I don’t wish for anything. Wishing for a million dollars feels greedy. I just wish for the best for me.

Just do you. Go with the flow and with your life because that’s you experiencing life. You being yourself is you doing your purpose, so the more we get out of the mindset of thinking there’s a certain way to go about things, the more free we become.

We’re all weirdos, and people want to work so hard to fit into society, but it’s like, no matter what you do, you’re never going to be what society depicts as what’s perfect, because that’s not real. The only point that you have to make is that ‘I’m being me.’

The type of movies that give me the heebie jeebies are thrillers, because anything that’s playing with your thoughts and mind, that’s scary. But one thing that they never do in horror movies that I always do is I pray. You never see them pray in horror movies.

Urban Outfitters – I love it. It’s almost like Forever 21, but for, like, the 24- to 25-year-old girl, getting a little bit older.

I’ve been keeping journals since I was 13.

I love watching YouTube makeup tutorials of girls who are so brave and show others how to blend in foundation on blemish-prone skin. I’ve considered creating my own YouTube tutorial for other girls just to show that everyone has these problems.

I’m a mash-up of everyone. My influences would be Michael Jackson, Brandy, Aaliyah – those types of people. So if you can imagine them – and with me taking them, and then putting my own twist and the influence on it – that’s musically what I would sound like.

I love princesses. And I think Cinderella is very strong. She’s a young woman thinking outside of her environment, outside of her current situation, and she is choosing to believe that all is possible for her. And I think that is so admirable.

When people think of me initially, they remember me as ‘Akeelah.’ Sometimes it can be frustrating to be remembered at an age that you’ve outgrown.

Working with Ice Cube was so tight. He’s cool, and I really like how he does family stuff. My guy friends couldn’t believe I was chillin’ with him. Dudes love Ice Cube.

I’m a workaholic, so I ignore the signs of fatigue and just keep going and going, and then conk out when I get home. It can be pretty stressful.

Corbin Bleu was my first kiss in life. I was 12, and he was, like, my first kiss for TV… It was on the lips!

I would like to do a music person’s story, a bio. I’ve wanted to do Aaliyah forever. But I don’t want it to always be like, ‘I’m singing again in a movie.’

You should never look at somebody and say, ‘I wish I had their life,’ because you never really know what struggles they’re going through.

Even though I’m in the industry and I act and all this stuff, I still suffer from self-esteem issues… from the way that I look or the way that I talk… just nitpicking at myself.

I’ve been able to stay good because of my family and keeping God first. If you don’t have God in your life, how are you going to navigate through this world?

I think people should have fun. And don’t get so down on yourself. Enjoy life and be the best person you can be.

Anything that controls my state of mind I never really want to do because I always want to be under control. That might be part of me being a Virgo. I never want to do something that stops me from being in control of who I am and my actions.

I’m not a huge musical fan. It’s like when people just jump out singing; it’s not real.

I think I was always joyous, but I don’t think I became very aware of positivity and its power until I became older. I always did it naturally, but then I lost it, and it forced me to find it again and appreciate it more.

I didn’t know I was gonna act. I thought I was gonna be a singer because that’s what I did first, and I was like, ‘When I grow up, I want to be, you know, a singer.’

As a child actor, you experience a lot of depression and anxiety… Yes, I went through depression, and it was not comfortable. Yes, I struggle with anxiety and being paranoid, trying to figure out who I am.

I work out. I’m getting toned, too. The Wii Fit really works your body. When I get off, I’m dying.

I can’t work all day and then go home and hang out with the same people. I don’t want everything to revolve around the entertainment business. Yes, that’s my career, but it’s not my life.

I’m happy with who I am inside. I’d hate to have accolades and all that and not really be happy with who I was. So I’m really thankful for my family and for the support system that I have for being the person that I am today. I’m proud of who I am.

Not being happy really is my fear.

I have a particular pair of boyfriend jeans that I wear with Converse sneakers and, really, any kind of top, from a crop top to a hoodie. I usually go for a loose top or jacket to keep things casual with sort of a streetwear vibe.

I didn’t come from a lot. I had a lot of love and support from my family, but as far as money and that type of thing, I didn’t really have any of that. All I did was follow my dreams. If my fans take anything from me, I hope it would be that.