Keke Palmer Quotes

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

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 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.

My work is my life. I’ve worked so much that I don’t know the difference between my personal life and my work, or my personal friends and my work friends.

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 think you can do anything you put your mind to. I think your mind is the worst thing you can use as a reason to not do something.

Real faith is when you believe in something that you can’t see. When things are going really bad and you can still get up and say I believe that they’re gonna get better, that there’s a higher lesson to what I’m going through. It can be hard sometimes, and to turn it around like that, that’s true faith.

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.

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.

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.

Whether it be in acting, music, or even in dancing, I only want to do things that I truly connect to, and with my music, it’s everything that I am.

I can’t even tell anyone how it feels when I’m acting, I don’t mean to say that I don’t have to try. But there’s something in my heart that explodes, and I feel like I understand. When I’m acting, I feel like so in control and so centered. This is something that I solely get from acting and music. It’s like love itself.

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 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.

Don’t depend on a guy for your happiness. You have to live your own life and do your own thing. That’s when good things come around – when you do your own thing and you’re not worried about a man. It will happen in due time.

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

I’m very happy to be part of a generation where you don’t have to say that you’re gay. It’s just like, ‘I’m dating a dude,’ or, ‘I’m dating a girl,’ and I love it. I think it’s a great time.

I love my bubble skirt. I wear it with a belt and my shirt tucked in. Just like a t-shirt from Nordstrom’s or something. And I wear this navy blue blazer with the sleeves crushed up. And I just feel like I’m such a cool girl when I walk out. I feel like, ‘Yeah I’m cool, like a model.’

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.

If you focus more on the inside, you’ll feel just as great about the outside. I feel attractive when I’m doing good and helping people.

I mix my lipsticks a lot. Depending on how I decide to do my eyes, I’ll decide to do my lips. I’ve never really loved wearing only red or purple, and sometimes just pink isn’t enough.

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.

I named my album ‘So Uncool’ because it defies the ordinary: you’re different from everyone else. It’s like, being uncool makes you cool because you’re different!

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.

Just as many people that love me, hate me, too. I get really mean, mean, mean, mean comments on Twitter, and it just comes with the territory.

Someday I would really love to do a talk show. That’s something I’ve always been interested in. I like to talk, and I love to help people.

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.

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.

Comedians like to see people smile. With acting, I love giving people a feeling, an emotion. I like to give people a feeling. When they come away from my scene, I want them to think.

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.

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.

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.

I really look up to Will Smith. He’s internationally known, and people know him from everything. I don’t know any kid who hasn’t seen and liked Fresh Prince, or you’ll like one of his movies or his music. He’s perfect, and he’s done everything. That’s my dream: to be internationally known.

You can often tell the difference between a singer that grows up in the church and one that just can sing. There’s a connection to love and support and care. You feel good when you hear it. You feel the people have so much conviction in what they’re singing. They believe it, so you believe it.

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

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.’

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

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.

Not being happy really is my fear.

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

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.

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.

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 feel like you have to tell people who you are, but you don’t have to be disrespectful about it. But you also don’t have to be a shrinking violet.