Brian Tyree Henry Quotes

Brian Tyree Henry

Profession : Actor

Birth : March 31, 1981

I love that you can just walk into the club and hear Young Jeezy or hear Fetty, and it's on.

Brian Tyree Henry

Atlanta's the hub of black culture, and it's OK to be you there - it's the city that really shaped me to be who I am.

Brian Tyree Henry

I say this all the time: All I know is I know nothing at all.

Brian Tyree Henry

Just to say 'woke' is to always be in a constant stream of consciousness where you don't feel like the wool is pulled over your eyes so much. You question your belief that everything should just be presented to you on this beautiful plate. Everything is not as it seems.

Brian Tyree Henry

I usually get approached by older white ladies of a certain class, with their pearls and, you know, their Talbots on and everything, and they're like, 'We just have to say, we know we're not your demographic, but we love Paper Boi; we really love this show, and we love what you're doing.' It's totally cool.

Brian Tyree Henry

Hug your mom. Hug your mom and thank your mom.

Brian Tyree Henry

'Atlanta' is really trying to put that out there: these are just the lives of these people in this city, and this city is its own breathing, living thing, too. So how do you navigate through life, especially with dreams and aspirations in a world that tells you that you don't deserve to have them.

Brian Tyree Henry

That's the great thing about being an actor: getting the opportunity to do something that really speaks to you.

Brian Tyree Henry

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.

Brian Tyree Henry

My father was retired military, and my mother was an educator. She was incredibly creative. I used to love going to her school during the summer and helping her decorate her classroom. I would draw Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck. She was a sixth grade teacher. She and my father are the ones that got me into my love of music.

Brian Tyree Henry

The most important thing I feel in the acting profession is to create a community that reflects you back to you.

Brian Tyree Henry

Theater's literally where I started.

Brian Tyree Henry

On top of trying to find my way in this business and losing my mother and trying to figure out what family meant to me and everything - 2016, there was a lot of anger from me and a lot of anger all around. I think the hardest part was to really realize that all these things, it's worth it.

Brian Tyree Henry

Life should be art, right?

Brian Tyree Henry

I learned everything I know about music from my parents and my sisters.

Brian Tyree Henry

I just remember watching my first theater class, and I was like, 'Oh I can get up there,' like I could absolutely get up and do this every day and learn about it.

Brian Tyree Henry

You can put Trump in the White House, but you need to prepare for a revolt because I'm going nuts.

Brian Tyree Henry

Acting really started for me because I was in a house full of adults. They never shielded their lives from me. They were adults going through this world doing what they had to do. I used to like to watch them and imitate them. They all have their own distinct personalities; even though they're family, we couldn't be more different people.

Brian Tyree Henry

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.'

Brian Tyree Henry

After my mother and father separated when I was 5, my mother moved to Washington, D.C., and my father remained in North Carolina. Later, I moved to New York and would often drive down to D.C. to see her. We'd ride around together talking and listening to music.

Brian Tyree Henry