Brian Tyree Henry Quotes
I just remember watching my first theater class, and I was like, 'Oh I can get up there,' like I could absolutely get up and do this every day and learn about it.
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I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
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As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.
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I like to go out and write. So I'll often go to a Starbucks or a local coffee bar, and I'll sit there and I'll write. I can write pretty much anywhere.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.
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I think being called a cat lady is a compliment. It means you have adopted a tiny little maniac into your life.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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Some people have a misunderstanding about the Army. Some people think, 'Hey, you're in the military, and everything is super-hierarchical, and you're in an environment that is intolerable of criticism, and people don't want frank assessments.' I think the opposite is the case.
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This country is pretty amazing.
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Every note is a lifetime for itself.
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Beethoven is the first composer to represent the complex process of memory-not merely the sense of loss and regret that accompanies visions of the past, but the physical experience of calling up the past within the present.
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I like what Oliver Lakes does on the saxophone. The saxophone comes pretty close to the sound of the human voice and when Oliver plays with other sax players, it's like a dialogue.
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Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.
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Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.
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You'd think I'd have been happiest in my life playing music in front of 50,000 people at Gillette Stadium. But let me tell you, it's an odd feeling to feel alone in the spotlight.
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I just remember watching my first theater class, and I was like, 'Oh I can get up there,' like I could absolutely get up and do this every day and learn about it.
