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.
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There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.
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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.
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One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'
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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.
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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.
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It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war.
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For me, there are always things to learn. It's like the next movie is going to be the good one, you know.
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What I loved about country music when I was a kid was the Grand Ole Opry, was 'Hee Haw,' was 360 degrees of entertainment.
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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.
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Neurologists have a host of clinical tests that let them observe what a brain-damaged patient can and cannot do.
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The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.
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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.
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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.
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I was obsessed with clowns. My dad had to get rid of them. I thought there were clowns under my bed for years.
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The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself.
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I'm an ass-kicking fat kid.
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Each moment of the happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
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There was a lot of terrible, terrible comedy in the seventies along with 'Fawlty Towers.' It's easy to forget.
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I grew up around backstage, and that clinched it for me.
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But I think there comes a time where you say, 'Is this what we want, or is this what everybody else wants?'
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Sometimes you just don't show up, and in our profession, it's a bad day.
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No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
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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.
