Brian Tyree Henry Quotes
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Hip-hop is not about pretense. You can be missing an eye; you can have an ice-cream cone in your face; you can run around with Bantu knots; you can decide to wear gold, all everything. It's not about how you look - it's about what you say. It's about what message you're getting across.
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I discovered that acting gave me this spark, this thing. Honestly, it was a way to survive.
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You play the honesty of the characters and show a side of them that people can relate to and want to get to know.
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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.
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I was working with the likes of Steve McQueen, Matthew McConaughey, Viola Davis, just running the gamut.
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At the end of the day, it's incredibly important to have a show like 'Atlanta' because if we can't stand up for and celebrate each other, then who will? Who will do it better?
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At Morehouse, I found myself and my voice, and I didn't want to lose that at Yale.
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The most important thing I feel in the acting profession is to create a community that reflects you back to you.
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I think that's the best thing about being black is that we find a way to make our own communities and always give room for people to pull up to our tables. We always provide a way for other people from different walks of life to come into the communities that we have built because we're so used to being excluded.
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My sisters were teenagers when I was born, so the last thing they wanted was a little nappy-headed boy running around. I would imitate them or copy things off TV.
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Atlanta's a great city to cultivate your own thing - from fashion to music to food.
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I was in show choir in high school.
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There's something about being onstage, man. No matter what age I am or where I'm going, theater will constantly be the thing that accepts me and embraces me.
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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.
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I went to college in Atlanta, so I know that city.
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I'm a huge pin collector.
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I've discovered people in my lifetime who are like, 'I always wanted to sing but... ' It's like, 'Well then, did you try?' My thing was always not caring about failure.
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I couldn't believe there was going to be a show called 'Atlanta,' because that's my favorite city in the country. It's where I went to college. I have so many great friends that live there. It's where I discovered that I wanted to be an artist.
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My father had one of the biggest vinyl collections I've ever seen.
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I hope Paper Boi runs for president. I hope he does. Governor, mayor, senator, I hope he does it all. You better believe it.
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The humility keeps me going forward.
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What does it serve any studio to not reflect the lives of people who are giving you money, who are crying out to you, 'Hey, please tell our stories.'
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When I was three years old, one of the first albums I ever heard was Michael Jackson's 'Off the Wall.'
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You see the Paper Bois - easy. Personas are easy to touch and see and digest. But you don't get the chance to really see who the Alfreds are. I want to make sure I did that with him.