Brian Tyree Henry Quotes

Brian Tyree Henry

Profession : Actor

Birth : March 31, 1981

The rap scene is so unique. Every rapper has to bring their own thing.

Brian Tyree Henry

Every time you get in front of the lights and the cameras and you think, 'Okay, well, we've done this before, but we have to do it again? Oh, we're doing it again? We're doing it again?' It's so gratifying, but I don't think I'll ever get used to it. I hope I won't.

Brian Tyree Henry

Atlanta has become and has always been a place where you create your own universe.

Brian Tyree Henry

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.

Brian Tyree Henry

Atlanta, in itself, is its own living, breathing thing.

Brian Tyree Henry

Aja Naomi is one of my good friends.

Brian Tyree Henry

I'm a big guy: I look like a linebacker, you know? But no one cares, really, that I'm educated. I have a copy of 'Fire Next Time' by James Baldwin in my bag. I have an Ibsen play in there, too. I have to walk through this world with that duality all the time, that I live in two different worlds.

Brian Tyree Henry

You play the honesty of the characters and show a side of them that people can relate to and want to get to know.

Brian Tyree Henry

I always say I'm not going to work: I'm going to play with my friends.

Brian Tyree Henry

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.

Brian Tyree Henry

I hope that there's a little black boy somewhere in Montana that never thought that he would see a reflection of himself, and he turns on the television, like, 'Oh my God, thank you.'

Brian Tyree Henry

You can't share your magic with everyone. Your job is to live within your magic. And if other magical people find you, then let's go and make a brew.

Brian Tyree Henry

TV can be a thread between all of us, and it can be a powerful tool to examine life and love and what we all have in common as humans.

Brian Tyree Henry

I went to college in Atlanta, so I know that city.

Brian Tyree Henry

I never really thought about what kind of career I wanted to map out for myself. I just wanted to do work that spoke to my heart. 'Atlanta' definitely did that.

Brian Tyree Henry

People like to use the word 'naivete' as a negative, but not for me.

Brian Tyree Henry

I was working with the likes of Steve McQueen, Matthew McConaughey, Viola Davis, just running the gamut.

Brian Tyree Henry

I was in show choir in high school.

Brian Tyree Henry

Atlanta's a great city to cultivate your own thing - from fashion to music to food.

Brian Tyree Henry

When I was three years old, one of the first albums I ever heard was Michael Jackson's 'Off the Wall.'

Brian Tyree Henry