Brian Tyree Henry Quotes

I never thought that 'Atlanta' would go off and do what it was gonna do. I never thought that I would get recognized for that show the way that I have been.

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• Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Day
  • Child
  • Doing

• There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • You
  • Always
  • Emotional

• Some of the regrets I've had about my own career are things I have not done that I should have done. More than some of the things that I've done.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
  • Done
  • Career
  • Own

• One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Business
  • Black
  • Girl

• The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Up
  • Home
  • Alone

• After I directed, when I went back to being an actor, I was like, 'God, this is the life!' Because you only have to concentrate on one thing.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Life
  • God
  • Actor

• It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • War
  • Got
  • Vietnam

• For me, there are always things to learn. It's like the next movie is going to be the good one, you know.

  

  Maiwenn
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Know

• What I loved about country music when I was a kid was the Grand Ole Opry, was 'Hee Haw,' was 360 degrees of entertainment.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Music
  • Country
  • Loved

• To me, steampunk and urban fantasy are naturally hinged together. And I think that's because I love the early gothic Victorian literature, and both things spring from that movement.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Literature
  • Movement
  • Fantasy

• Neurologists have a host of clinical tests that let them observe what a brain-damaged patient can and cannot do.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Brain
  • Patient
  • Tests

• The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Best
  • Sleep
  • Insomnia

• My mother hoped I would meet a nice doctor or barrister or accountant who would marry me and take me to live in what is now called Fashionable Dublin Four. But she felt that this was a vain hope. I was a bit loud to make a nice professional wife, and anyway, I was too keen on spending my holidays in far flung places to meet any of these people.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Mother
  • Hope

• I think it's important that kids have responsibilities and understand the value of things, but I think it's great I get to travel the world with my daughter.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • World
  • Great
  • Important

• I was obsessed with clowns. My dad had to get rid of them. I thought there were clowns under my bed for years.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Dad
  • Thought
  • Years

• The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • World
  • Scent
  • Deer

• I'm an ass-kicking fat kid.

  

  Jack Osbourne

• Each moment of the happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

  

  Aphra Behn
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Age

• Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities in directing one's course by it, still one must try to follow its direction.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Trying
  • Sometimes
  • Perceive

• Improving the opportunities across the board is extremely important to sustain the legitimacy of wealth. If a whole horde of people, whole sections of society don't feel they have the opportunities, then the focus is going to be on those who have it and who have made it and say that is illegitimate.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • People
  • Important
  • Society

• There's no tour plans, no reunion, no new album... nothing.

  

  Dee Snider

• Means are not to be distinguished from ends. If violent means are used, there will be bad results.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Results
  • Means
  • Violent

• There's a reason cats were near deity in ancient Egypt. Dogs may be loyal, but cats are smart. This one must recognize our bond. You can take the cat ouf of Egypt, but you can't take Egypt out of the cat. Wow, I should have that embroidered on a pillow or something.

  

  Kiersten White
  • Reason
  • Dog
  • Smart

• I never thought that 'Atlanta' would go off and do what it was gonna do. I never thought that I would get recognized for that show the way that I have been.

  

  Brian Tyree Henry