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Lenny Henry
Profession : Actor
Birth : August 29, 1958
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If you don't know your history, you can't know your future.
Lenny Henry
Perfection isn't everything, some mistakes are pretty groovy.
Lenny Henry
My family is from Jamaica, it's why I don't do 'Who Do You Think You Are' because within two or three generations is slavery, and I'd be there two minutes in crying, they're all slaves! So I don't want to do 'Who Do You Think You Are.' It's in my family.
Lenny Henry
As a performer, you get your 'thing.' You're the deadpan comedian, or the mad one, or the sexy one, and then you rely on that and mine that seam for years and years and you kind of forget who you were. There's this mask that you hold up between you and the audience that means they never get to see who you really are.
Lenny Henry
Shakespeare is for everybody, not just for toffs with a cauliflower down their tights.
Lenny Henry
The Anansi stories were in my life because they're not just 'Br'er Rabbit and the Tar-Baby in the Briar Patch,' they're stories from Jamaica and Africa that my mum used to tell us when we were kids. So I learned about Anansi being not just a spider, but also a weird god-like figure since I was little.
Lenny Henry
In the 1970s in black and Asian households up and down the country, there's a familiar story that when we saw a non-white person on TV we would call the rest of the family to the sitting room to have a look. The story that is less well known is what it was like to be that one black person on TV.
Lenny Henry
It's nice to get home and do normal stuff. Put the rubbish out, do the school run - it means you stay grounded. I knew a horn player who was so used to being on the road that he became institutionalised; he could never adjust to being at home. I'm really glad I didn't let it get that far.
Lenny Henry
I never let myself forget that I'm really lucky in my work to be able to discover so many people and places, and to have the opportunity to bring some of their stories to new audiences.
Lenny Henry
There are comics who choose to be controversial, and people have to make a judgment call. You either watch it or you don't. It's possible to be funny about anything, it just depends on how you approach it and if you've got good self-editing skills.
Lenny Henry
Now, although I'm a mimic and I've got a reasonable ear, being a character isn't about an ear. It's about the whole person.
Lenny Henry
It is wrong if nearly every time we hear a black or Asian actor portraying their lives they are actually speaking the words of someone who has never experienced their reality. And to effectively silence disabled people from telling their own truth on film or TV is close to criminal and will not help wider society understand their reality.
Lenny Henry
Wouldn't it be great, if there was a one-stop shop where funny people could take their ideas and have them made?
Lenny Henry
My dad, Winston, didn't say much. He was a very reluctant man. He came home from working at the foundry every day and then he'd go to the bookies, watch cricket on TV or go to the pub. He was like a Victorian dad, really. He didn't have much to do with us kids.
Lenny Henry
If you can't see, you can't be. If we don't see BAME people on the TV, or in film, we become invisible.
Lenny Henry
You walk into the Beeb and it is very, very white. That is not anybody's fault. You can be in an oppressive institution and not be an oppressor.
Lenny Henry
It was never on the cards for me to go to uni, going to a sink secondary modern in the Midlands. The threat was that if you didn't get your exams, you would end up in a factory. Which I did, but actually that was a great experience, and I would have even got an engineering diploma if I had stuck my three years out.
Lenny Henry
When my older and younger brother came to live in this country, they were attacked on numerous occasions and had to defend themselves. This was a country where it was hard to assimilate, it was difficult because a lot of people didn't want you here.
Lenny Henry
I wish I'd seen Bob Marley and the Wailers at the Rainbow in 1977.
Lenny Henry
Life is about overcoming self-doubt. But you don't grow if you don't question yourself.
Lenny Henry
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