Brian Tyree Henry

Sometimes, you need someone to believe in you when you don't believe in yourself.

— Brian Tyree Henry

You see the Paper Bois - easy. Personas are easy to touch and see and digest. But you don't get the chance…

— Brian Tyree Henry

I have been the hugest HBO fan since I was 3, watching programming that I had no business watching as a child.

— Brian Tyree Henry

My father had one of the biggest vinyl collections I've ever seen.

— Brian Tyree Henry

This is the city that kind of formulated who I am. And, not only that, but to be black in Atlanta is…

— Brian Tyree Henry

I never really thought about what kind of career I wanted to map out for myself. I just wanted to do work…

— Brian Tyree Henry

The projects that I've been fortunate enough to do are all projects where I followed my heart. I didn't follow the money…

— Brian Tyree Henry

After my mother and father separated when I was 5, my mother moved to Washington, D.C., and my father remained in North…

— Brian Tyree Henry

I dare somebody to go to Atlanta and not have a good time.

— Brian Tyree Henry

Really trying to find the people who really ride for you and are down for you, that's hard.

— Brian Tyree Henry

Acting really started for me because I was in a house full of adults. They never shielded their lives from me. They…

— Brian Tyree Henry

I'm a huge pin collector.

— Brian Tyree Henry

'Atlanta' is really trying to put that out there: these are just the lives of these people in this city, and this…

— Brian Tyree Henry

Life should be art, right?

— Brian Tyree Henry

Hip-hop is not about pretense. You can be missing an eye; you can have an ice-cream cone in your face; you can…

— Brian Tyree Henry

People like to use the word 'naivete' as a negative, but not for me.

— Brian Tyree Henry

I couldn't believe there was going to be a show called 'Atlanta,' because that's my favorite city in the country. It's where…

— Brian Tyree Henry

I stay in contact with my castmates from 'Atlanta' almost every day.

— Brian Tyree Henry

I love the element of surprise, throwing people off of what they think they know about what I can do and who…

— Brian Tyree Henry

I'm a big guy: I look like a linebacker, you know? But no one cares, really, that I'm educated. I have a…

— Brian Tyree Henry

I was working with the likes of Steve McQueen, Matthew McConaughey, Viola Davis, just running the gamut.

— Brian Tyree Henry

It's not without its flaws - it's still the South and the Bible Belt - but Atlanta is one of those cities…

— Brian Tyree Henry

I was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, which is where J. Cole is from. I went up to Washington, D.C., where my…

— Brian Tyree Henry

Yale was one of the best moments in my life - also one of the hardest. I learned about community.

— Brian Tyree Henry

My father was retired military, and my mother was an educator. She was incredibly creative. I used to love going to her…

— Brian Tyree Henry