With every task you think, 'What did I do wrong there? What could I do better?' That's why I've spent my life… — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
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… — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
I'm a black person and when I was growing up I went to a school with no other black people and walked… — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When I was eight my mum said, 'You must integrate otherwise you won't fit it in. You must talk like de Dudley… — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
I worked at the BBC for 35 years before I had a meeting with anyone who looks like me. The only people… — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
Quotas are often about quantity and not quality. I think people should get jobs because they are qualified and they can prove… — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
They don't make red noses to fit black people. I have a wide nose like a Volkswagen and I have never had… — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
Black people didn't start coming to see me until 1982. I'd just started doing Delbert, and suddenly my world changed. I started… — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
I got into lots of fights at school: I'd get racially abused, then lash out. One day, this kid said something and… — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
I want people to be safe, I don't want people to die or end up in hospital because of Covid-19. — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
I've been to Africa many times in the past 20 years, but I can't believe this is the first time since the… — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
It's not just about showbusiness - everywhere you go people are discriminated against. And if by having an organised voice against inequality… — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
Ecstasy is a drug so powerful, it makes white people think they can dance. — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
There are comics who choose to be controversial, and people have to make a judgment call. You either watch it or you… — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I got accused of misrepresenting all people of colour in Great Britain. I would get told off a lot. 'How can you… — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
I love the BBC but I just want this thing of BAME inclusion in the demographic of the people who make the… — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
Huge props to Brian Michael Bendis for sort of shaking up the Marvel universe and just saying 'there need to be people… — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
What a gift it would be if every child in the country could hear a professional orchestra at least once. — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
I lament the passing of 'Play for Today,' 'Armchair Theatre,' 'Screen One and Two' and 'Comedy Playhouse' - because these shows gave a platform… — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
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… — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
I think tax breaks for diversity is a good thing. In film now, what happens is you get huge tax breaks if you can… — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Stand-up's a lottery - you think it's funny but the audience can disagree. — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
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… — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
That's where depression hits you most - your home life. It doesn't affect your work. I can't do this zany, wacky, funny thing any… — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
