Brian Tyree Henry Quotes
I was in a musical for a while, and I sing around the house all the time, but I don't ever think of myself as a singer.
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I didn't know much about golf growing up.
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This is my favorite area in New York - the West Village is the heart of New York. I could never move somewhere else.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
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You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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I'll admit it: I'm a control freak. I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110% or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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Every time I touch the ball, I think I'm going to go all the way. I think I'm going to score a touchdown. I'm the runner I am because I think that I'm going to go all the way every single time I touch the ball.
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Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.
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In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards.
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'Single' is usually applied to women as though they are a problem to be fixed.
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There was no Groundlings or Upright Citizens Brigade where I was from. Looking back on it, I was trying to do sketch comedy in my stand-up, which is still kind of what I am doing now. To go full-circle here, it's kind of like one-man sketch.
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I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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We all need some TLC and to pat ourselves on the back from time to time.
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My favorite scene in all of movies is Gregory Peck in 'To Kill A Mockingbird': You see him where he's on the porch, and his face is almost completely obscured. I don't want to see his face.
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I wasn't even going to do acting. I don't know how it even happened, to be honest. I was going to go into psychology or something like that. Or business. And then some moment of madness took over and I decided, 'Oh, I'm gonna go to London and try to be an actor.'
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I am constantly struggling to show people that there is more to me than my appearance. You do have to try and overcome those hurdles. Female actresses need to be given the chance to be more than how they look.
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A friend in the War Office warned me that I was in Kitchener's black books, and that orders had been given for my arrest next time I appeared in France.
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I was in a musical for a while, and I sing around the house all the time, but I don't ever think of myself as a singer.
