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Brian Tyree Henry

Brian Tyree Henry

American Actor

Born: Mar 31, 1981

Atlanta Love Me Own People You

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My father was retired military, and my mother was an educator. She was incredibly creative. I used to love going to her school during the summer and helping her decorate her classroom. I would draw Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck. She was a sixth grade teacher. She and my father are the ones that got me into my love of music. Brian Tyree Henry

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I'm a big guy: I look like a linebacker, you know? But no one cares, really, that I'm educated. I have a copy of 'Fire Next Time' by James Baldwin in my bag. I have an Ibsen play in there, too. I have to walk through this world with that duality all the time, that I live in two different worlds. Brian Tyree Henry

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I always say I'm not going to work: I'm going to play with my friends. Brian Tyree Henry

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There's no redemption in being robbed. Yeah, maybe you can replace that thing, but it will never be the way it was when you got it the first time. It'll never have the same weight and preciousness again. Brian Tyree Henry

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Hip-hop is not about pretense. You can be missing an eye; you can have an ice-cream cone in your face; you can run around with Bantu knots; you can decide to wear gold, all everything. It's not about how you look - it's about what you say. It's about what message you're getting across. Brian Tyree Henry

Acting, for me, was kind of a way of survival, honestly. I'm the baby boy out of four different sisters, and I grew up in a house with so many different personalities that acting was the only way to not go to therapy. Brian Tyree Henry

I love that you can just walk into the club and hear Young Jeezy or hear Fetty, and it's on. Brian Tyree Henry

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I learned everything I know about music from my parents and my sisters. Brian Tyree Henry

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

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I say this all the time: All I know is I know nothing at all. Brian Tyree Henry

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My school had the dopest arts program - the dopest show choir, the dopest marching band. I couldn't sing or play an instrument a lick, but I was just going to fake it till I make it. Brian Tyree Henry

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When people ask me, 'Are you a singer?' I say, 'No, I'm not a 'singer' - but I love the craft of singing,' going in and finding out what that means or why the hell I'm singing in the first place. My thing is really the craft of it. Brian Tyree Henry

I went to college in Atlanta, so I know that city. Brian Tyree Henry

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The rap scene is so unique. Every rapper has to bring their own thing. Brian Tyree Henry

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Life should be art, right? Brian Tyree Henry

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I was in a musical for a while, and I sing around the house all the time, but I don't ever think of myself as a singer. Brian Tyree Henry

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I think that Atlanta has this huge well of black culture and openness to share all the things that we have made there. Brian Tyree Henry

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In my household growing up in Fayetteville, N.C., music was the great communicator between my parents and me. Brian Tyree Henry

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My mom loved road trips, and sometimes we'd drive down to North Carolina. Though my parents were separated, she wanted me to stay connected with my dad. Brian Tyree Henry

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