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Lenny Henry
Profession : Actor
Birth : August 29, 1958
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My upbringing gave me a lot of backbone and prepared me well for showbiz. It could throw anything at me and I could take it.
Lenny Henry
No, people don't heckle me. I think it's because there's this big, black guy on stage and it's slightly daunting.
Lenny Henry
If you work all the time, you don't have many life experiences to feed back into your work.
Lenny Henry
We used to live in a one-room bedsit in Dudley with an Indian family.
Lenny Henry
I got into lots of fights at school: I'd get racially abused, then lash out. One day, this kid said something and instead of putting my fists up, I said something back: people laughed, and he walked away.
Lenny Henry
With standup, I was thrown into the deep end at a very early age, without being able to swim. Acting was the same.
Lenny Henry
When I was younger, I was very thick-skinned - my skin is actually getting thinner as I get older.
Lenny Henry
I fell asleep during some ballet once.
Lenny Henry
I got accused of misrepresenting all people of colour in Great Britain. I would get told off a lot. 'How can you do African characters when you're not African?' But I gave it a go. Maybe if there had been more of us I could have just been Lenny Henry from the Black Country with Jamaican parents.
Lenny Henry
It's not just about showbusiness - everywhere you go people are discriminated against. And if by having an organised voice against inequality and a lack of diversity we might be able to push that down - how brilliant would it be?
Lenny Henry
My story is an immigrant story. My story is of people moving from one country thousands of miles away to another and forming new links, new family and new relationships.
Lenny Henry
I wish my dad or somebody had taught me how to fight and defend myself. Because you're very vulnerable if you can't stick up for yourself.
Lenny Henry
Comedy is a way of hiding - especially character comedy.
Lenny Henry
My mum was a fixed point in my universe who was never going to grow old or die; she was always going to be there. And when she got sick, I was on the road all the time, I wasn't at home much, there was a lot of pressure. It was an awful time, and when she died, it was like your world falls apart.
Lenny Henry
BAME kids get discouraged - too many glass ceilings to break through.
Lenny Henry
I worked at the BBC for 35 years before I had a meeting with anyone who looks like me. The only people like me were cleaning the corridors, and that is not right.
Lenny Henry
I believe that if we want to change our industry we must look beyond what we see on our TV screens and fix the bigger problems lying beneath. When it comes to racial diversity that means looking at who commissions and makes the programmes.
Lenny Henry
Mum would hit us with anything. You'd see her looking for something to hit you with, and you'd think, please let it be something reasonably soft. She threw a chair at me once. It was like being in a western.
Lenny Henry
I was always uncool. I was always from variety - big bow ties, flared trousers. Never cool.
Lenny Henry
I never asked to be compared to Richard Pryor. I just realised he was one of the greatest humorists we'd ever had on earth, I knew I wanted to be like that.
Lenny Henry
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