Josh Henderson Quotes

I consider myself a Texan. I grew up in Texas and Oklahoma.

If you go down to Texas, people are real proud about and they rep Texas.

I'm from Texas.

Dallas is always a fun place to play.

Not every day where I'm from do people get a movie made about them.

It's much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won't keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don't know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we've got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, 'Is this it? Are we still relevant?'

And who cares, five years down the road, what most movies made or didn't make? If it's good, it stands up.

They say you can do honest, sincere work for decades, but you're given in general a 10-year period when what you do touches the zeitgeist - when you're relevant. And I'm aware of that, and I don't want my time to go by.

There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the murders are all bigger than anywhere else.

I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.

I'm from Dallas. My whole family is based in Texas and Mississippi and Arkansas, spread throughout most of the South.

I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.

I always had that adolescent notion that I had to get out of Texas. But I'm really glad I grew up there. It's where I learned to look people in the eye, to be straightforward and polite.

It's very weird about movies: you never know which ones are going to stay alive and which one are going to be meaningless. When you're there, you couldn't possibly predict it. Some things slowly die, and others slowly stay a while.

The No. 1 quote critics give me is, 'Thom, your work is irrelevant.' Now, that's a fascinating, fascinating comment. Yes, irrelevant to the little subculture, this microculture, of modern art. But here's the point: My art is relevant because it's relevant to 10 million people. That makes me the most relevant artist in this culture.

But I'm a citizen of Texas and try to spend most of my time there.

Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians.

If you ain't Texan, I ain't got time for you.

I love working in Texas anywhere.

I have a good friend who's a Texas girl; Texas girls are a whole different breed.

I'm from East Texas, yes.

We Houstonians, generally speaking, are hearty. The weather's too hot for us not to be.

You can be up there, talked about, appreciated all over the world, with people singing a lot of songs about you. But if you don't measure up and you are not really connected with your people... it will explode in your face, no question about it.

Short stories are not maybe the biggest deal in our culture anymore.

People in Midland are real nice folks: I can't prove that with statistics, but I know West Texas, and it's just a fact.