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.

Brian Tyree Henry

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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

• Listen, I've been pretty fortunate. And if I've been underrated, it's actually been something I've been able to work with; I can surprise people. It sets me up to exceed expectations, so I don't mind.

  

  Brad Pitt
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• In the first part of the year when he was healthy, I think that's about as good as I've seen anybody run -- very forceful, very aggressive. I think that's a real problem for us because in the first go-round, I don't think he was healthy.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Good
  • Real

• I will never forget experiencing Venice for the first time. It feels like you are transported to another time - the art, music, food and pure romance in the air is like no other place.

  

  Elizabeth Berkley
  • Time
  • Music
  • Art

• She made him think of his mother, of his nurse, of all things kind and comforting, besides having the attraction of not being his mother or his nurse.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Mother
  • Attraction
  • Comforting

• I look at the newspapers, and I cannot believe most of the stories I read. Bernie Madoff, who actually screwed millions of people for billions of dollars, it's just unbelievable what he got away with and how long it took for him to be exposed. A guy like that should be hanged.

  

  Alan Abel
  • Believe
  • Stories
  • Newspapers

• 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