Brian Tyree Henry Quotes
Acting really started for me because I was in a house full of adults. They never shielded their lives from me. They were adults going through this world doing what they had to do. I used to like to watch them and imitate them. They all have their own distinct personalities; even though they're family, we couldn't be more different people.
Quotes to Explore
-
A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
-
Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
-
I'd love to see more middle and high school teachers who are not teaching English develop classroom libraries. Our message to kids should be that reading is for everyone.
-
On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father's side, I'm German, and he has the fantastic olive hues... I was given mum's skin, whereas my brothers and sisters were given my dad's skin. I do tan up quite well, but it takes me a bit longer.
-
It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
-
This is my favorite area in New York - the West Village is the heart of New York. I could never move somewhere else.
-
The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.
-
My work was entirely nonfiction.
-
Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
-
Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
-
You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
-
For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.
-
Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
-
I just don't think men fancy me.
-
After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.
-
I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.
-
I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
-
It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
-
What I really love are acai bowls, with berries, granola, and so much honey.
-
You were fool enough to think that one hundred and fifty million years either way made an ounce of difference to the muddle of thoughts in a man’s cerebral vortex.
-
We envy people we love for being always in their own loved company.
-
I don't want to name names because they'd be mad at me if I did, but people who are significant novelists can't get published by real publishers at this point, or have to go through two years of trying after writing a novel that's taken them five or six years and simply can't get the thing in print. Or it gets in print and it doesn't get reviewed in the New York Times Book Review and disappears without a trace. I mean, it's terrifying. I don't know how anybody can stand it. It's such an enormous amount of work and the economics of it are really quite brutal.
-
I want the world to be filled with white fluffy duckies.
-
Acting really started for me because I was in a house full of adults. They never shielded their lives from me. They were adults going through this world doing what they had to do. I used to like to watch them and imitate them. They all have their own distinct personalities; even though they're family, we couldn't be more different people.
