Lenny Henry Quotes

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Lenny Henry

Profession : Actor

Birth : August 29, 1958

It's about challenging yourself; wanting to do things that push you.

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Quotas are often about quantity and not quality. I think people should get jobs because they are qualified and they can prove they are good at the job.

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I love the BBC but I just want this thing of BAME inclusion in the demographic of the people who make the decisions about what we do and how we do it, to change.

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I do like a well-written sketch with a bunch of jokes in it, and I like stand-up with good jokes in it it.

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Black people didn't start coming to see me until 1982. I'd just started doing Delbert, and suddenly my world changed. I started doing black-centred characters that were about people I knew in the community.

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Nothing surprises me as far as racism is concerned in this country.

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At school I wasn't particularly engaged. I was sort of a look-out-the-window guy.

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That's what all of us, as writers, actors and comedians, set out to do - shine a light on new perspectives.

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What a gift it would be if every child in the country could hear a professional orchestra at least once.

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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor has opened my eyes in many ways.

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It is wrong if how we see women on TV is largely determined by male directors.

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My mum came to Britain from Clarendon, in the south of Jamaica, to make a better life for her family.

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I have a CBE - which I accepted because I knew how much my mum, who made it all possible, would have loved it.

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I read 'Fences' when I was about 30 and I thought: This is too sad.' But you get older and you start to go, 'Yeah, yeah, this is like life, why wouldn't I want to do it?'

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Stand-up's a lottery - you think it's funny but the audience can disagree.

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My dad never hugged me, never said he was proud of me.

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I listen to a lot of Sade.

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My mum was very, very tough.

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I lament the passing of 'Play for Today,' 'Armchair Theatre,' 'Screen One and Two' and 'Comedy Playhouse' - because these shows gave a platform to new talent and new writing on primetime television.

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