Joshua Henry Quotes

United States, Actor
September 2, 1984

Joshua Anthony Charlton Henry is an American actor and singer of stage and screen. He is best known for portraying Haywood Patterson in Kander and Ebb's 2010 musical The Scottsboro Boys, for which he received a Tony Award nomination. He portrayed the lead role of Aaron Burr in the first U.S. tour of Hamilton, previously playing the role in the Chicago production that began performances in late September 2016. After Hamilton, Henry portrayed the lead role of Billy Bigelow in a Broadway revival of Carousel.

Also known as Singer

You wanna work with people who you have a rapport with. You finish each other's sentences a bit creatively when you've worked together for a while.

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- People
- Work
- Rapport
It's really empowering when you see yourself represented in entertainment and, especially, onstage when you're talking about how this country came to be.

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I really liked the idea of playing - I won't say the underdog - but characters who have a lot of conflict.

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It's always relevant - moving forward into the future and finding out who you are. I think those themes never get stale.

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- Future
- Moving
- Relevant
When success comes, it changes everything, so I'm interested in portraying what that's like, and I think I have a lot of connection with that.

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I love playing roles where it's not just the good guy or the bad guy.

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- Bad
- Guy
- Role
Everyone's got something that they've held onto from their childhood or from a past relationship, someone who's told you what you are, and it's leaving all that behind and living a happy life and realizing that a lot of that is inside you - really uncovering that. The story - those themes - are heavy themes that everyone can connect to.

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- Story
- Connect
- Themes
Theater is certainly - is my first love, if I had to pick.

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- Theater
- Pick
- First Love

People all learn things differently, and sometimes imagination isn't considered as useful a tool as it can be in the learning process - especially in school in subjects like math and science.

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I like directors who come ready to challenge you to ask the right questions about your character, and I know that directors appreciate that in actors as well.

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I think there's something special about getting a moment perfect or near perfect. In a film, you can do that.

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- Perfect
- Film
- Moment