Brian Tyree Henry Quotes

Brian Tyree Henry

Profession : Actor

Birth : March 31, 1981

In my household growing up in Fayetteville, N.C., music was the great communicator between my parents and me.

Brian Tyree Henry

The great thing about James Baldwin and his writing is that it's still fresh every time you pick it up. That's also the sad thing about his writing sometimes, too.

Brian Tyree Henry

Being in a club - clubs are, like, not my favorite thing.

Brian Tyree Henry

I am the product of those who believed in me.

Brian Tyree Henry

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.

Brian Tyree Henry

I love the element of surprise, throwing people off of what they think they know about what I can do and who I am. I just want to keep doing that.

Brian Tyree Henry

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.

Brian Tyree Henry

I think that Atlanta has this huge well of black culture and openness to share all the things that we have made there.

Brian Tyree Henry

Every single person you can think of called me Paper Boi.

Brian Tyree Henry

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.

Brian Tyree Henry

The humility keeps me going forward.

Brian Tyree Henry

At Morehouse, I found myself and my voice, and I didn't want to lose that at Yale.

Brian Tyree Henry

I don't think I'm going to be back on 'This Is Us.' I think that Uncle Ricky had his moment; he did what he had to do.

Brian Tyree Henry

My mom loved road trips, and sometimes we'd drive down to North Carolina. Though my parents were separated, she wanted me to stay connected with my dad.

Brian Tyree Henry

I was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, which is where J. Cole is from. I went up to Washington, D.C., where my mother moved, to stay with her, and then moved back to North Carolina to finish junior high and high school.

Brian Tyree Henry

It's not without its flaws - it's still the South and the Bible Belt - but Atlanta is one of those cities that's really good at uniting people.

Brian Tyree Henry

I have been the hugest HBO fan since I was 3, watching programming that I had no business watching as a child.

Brian Tyree Henry

This is the city that kind of formulated who I am. And, not only that, but to be black in Atlanta is one of the greatest things because you can go anywhere and feel familiar with anyone who's right next to you, from Bankhead to Buckhead.

Brian Tyree Henry

If you are conscious and really want change in this world, and you don't vote, then what was all the fighting for? All the things our parents and our parents' parents fought for?

Brian Tyree Henry

I discovered that acting gave me this spark, this thing. Honestly, it was a way to survive.

Brian Tyree Henry