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Lenny Henry
Profession : Actor
Birth : August 29, 1958
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If I'm going to do comedy I sort of want to do my own.
Lenny Henry
When I was young we had a collection for the Welsh disaster at Aberfan and we also had a school campaign for Biafra. It is a wake-up call for kids - a way of understanding that it's not all 'Blue Peter' for everyone and that maybe they can help.
Lenny Henry
I want diversity to be at the very heart of the BBC and not delivered by some other party with increased government interference, bureaucracy and unforeseen consequences.
Lenny Henry
I was in church every Sunday till I was 14 or 15. A van used to come and get us, whether we wanted to go or not. I saw people getting the spirit, talking in tongues, juddering, foaming at the mouth - to be honest, I was a bit frightened of it. The minute I could, I stopped going.
Lenny Henry
I want people to be safe, I don't want people to die or end up in hospital because of Covid-19.
Lenny Henry
People want to be represented on television.
Lenny Henry
Depending on who's directing you, sometime it's heightened or more naturalistic, but generally you're trying to represent something truthful.
Lenny Henry
When you've lived in a country for 50 years and you pay your tax, you have a pension and insurance, you've raised a family and sent your kids to uni. To get to an age and be told you don't belong here and you have to go back to where you come from is really saddening and infuriating.
Lenny Henry
I'm a black person and when I was growing up I went to a school with no other black people and walked past signs that said 'Keep Britain White.'
Lenny Henry
I think tax breaks for diversity is a good thing. In film now, what happens is you get huge tax breaks if you can prove via your hiring practices and via casting, that the film is British, you get a tax break. Wouldn't it be great if you got a tax break because the film was properly diverse?
Lenny Henry
Huge props to Brian Michael Bendis for sort of shaking up the Marvel universe and just saying 'there need to be people of colour in these comics otherwise it's not representing the true world the way it should be.'
Lenny Henry
I think it's possible for anybody to write what they want to write - superheroes, historical, period drama, 'Game Of Thrones' - it's just how you chuck yourself into it that counts. And do your research.
Lenny Henry
In our house, my mum was the funny one.
Lenny Henry
I didn't want to be a 16-year-old kid being beaten up by a bunch of people who didn't like me 'cause of the colour of my skin.
Lenny Henry
It was weird being a kid in the Midlands where outside everybody is white and speaks in a certain way but when you go home nobody speaks that way and everybody looks like you. Every day was this weird threshold crossing.
Lenny Henry
When I was eight my mum said, 'You must integrate otherwise you won't fit it in. You must talk like de Dudley people dem.' Suddenly this thing of having a Jamaican attitude got knocked out of us.
Lenny Henry
In 21st-century storytelling all bets are off: anybody can do anything. We're all storytellers.
Lenny Henry
I like to play characters who are flawed - the big man brought down.
Lenny Henry
I'm a big fan of the blues, and a lot of those guys travelled all over America on Greyhound buses, listening to music and ending up in some juke joint, late at night, rootless and with no responsibilities - one of those gamblers who risk it all on seven is romantic and exciting.
Lenny Henry
With every task you think, 'What did I do wrong there? What could I do better?' That's why I've spent my life gravitating towards people who can show me how to improve.
Lenny Henry
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