Brian Tyree Henry Quotes
My school had the dopest arts program - the dopest show choir, the dopest marching band. I couldn't sing or play an instrument a lick, but I was just going to fake it till I make it.
Quotes to Explore
-
Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
-
In Holy Cross, I came to like school, to like studying in a way I had never done before.
-
I had a high school sweetheart that was my first. We were together all through high school. I had just broken up with him because I didn't think I was good enough. He wanted to be an anesthesiologist. I wanted to be an entertainer. His life was more planned out, and mine wasn't.
-
I went out with this boy on the proviso that he didn't tell anybody we were together. The idiot didn't keep his mouth shut. I dumped him. I never went out with a boy from school again.
-
I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.
-
We owe our public servants, from school teachers to state employees, a sustainable and well-funded retirement that they can count on.
-
I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.
-
I always did TV commercials and made great money to put myself through school. That became guest starring roles on TV shows.
-
I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchestra or a symphony, all those bows moving at the same time... wow.
-
My childhood was a happy one. I was captain of the school sports team and played cricket after class. I had five younger siblings and a large loving family that lived together. We are still very close.
-
When I graduated from Parsons School of Design, the dean at that time said I would never be a designer. Obviously I didn't listen.
-
With a rock band, you play the same things over and over and over.
-
Every step, whether at high school or at college or at the NFL, I had to climb and crawl and scratch to get there.
-
We shot 'High School Musical' in eight weeks. I spent longer rehearsing for 'Hairspray' than filming 'High School Musical'.
-
I'm not someone who went to acting school - I was just out of the gate, doing it.
-
What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.
-
If you're graduating from high school, and you come from a lower income family, you're effectively given two options. One is get a four-year college degree; two is work at a low-wage job, potentially for the rest of your life. We've got to do better on that front. We have to provide more options.
-
I teach at the Stanford Business School, and about half of my students are foreign, many of whom, I hope, will stay and build businesses in U.S. But I must tell you that they also have opportunities to come back to India and start great companies and operations.
-
I don't play the bass. I'm not in a band. I tried to think of ways I could touch base with the troops and support what we're doing.
-
I am in love with old school funk and soul music. That's what I grew up listening to, and I want to bring that style back with my music. I love artists like Stevie Wonder, Donna Summer, Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson, Earth, Wind, & Fire, Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake, and more!
-
Actually, I was more or less determined to be a theoretical physicist at the age of thirteen.
-
I can't spend any time cultivating celebrity.
-
The story of journalism, on a day-to-day basis, is the story of the interaction of reporters and officials
-
My school had the dopest arts program - the dopest show choir, the dopest marching band. I couldn't sing or play an instrument a lick, but I was just going to fake it till I make it.
