Brian Tyree Henry Quotes

When I discovered drama, I felt a connection.

I will never leave the theater. My heart is there and I love being on stage eight times a week.

As soon as my foot is in the light onstage, I am home. It is what I love to do. It is what I have always loved to do.

I want to do stage again, because there just aren't words for how great it is. People say that all the time, 'There's nothing like live theater, blah blah,' but it's really true. I see a show and I know how they feel, and it feels great.

I loved entertainment and acting, performing. I just liked the stage and having the spotlight and stuff.

As rewarding as a good film role can be, there is just nothing like getting up on a stage and taking an audience for a ride.

Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor.

I was definitely a thespian of sorts in elementary school. I went to a real small private school, and every year, I participated in the talent shows and the school plays - all of 'em.

I can't take the theater side out of myself.

A woman is like an actress: she's always onstage.

I'm most at home on the stage.

I started on the stage when I was 13 and I consider the stage my home.

I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.

It's all performing; that's what we do in life. We talk, we look, and we hear, and we listen. Your life is a performance.

I think theater will always be my first love. I've been doing it since I was nine, and there's nothing quite like being on stage, having the immediate intake of energy and exchange of ideas.

To me, theater is the mecca; if you really love to act, that's where it's the most fun, by a long shot.

By the time I was 10, I was doing plays for Phoenix theater. My first lead role was as the Stinky Cheese Man. I got a taste of the limelight, and I just couldn't stop. It was a way for me to be the artistic, geeky kid that I was, and not get beat up.

Anyone who goes on the stage is a show-off, aren't they? Acting's weird.

I have been doing acting my whole life. I did plays in high school. I take it pretty seriously. I used to do a lot of Shakespeare and Shakespearean festivals and monologues.

Theater has always been most important to my psyche.

The muscles you flex in theater are muscles that you really need. I must always find a way to get back there. It's irreplaceable.

That's one of my real goals is to keep theater in my life.

I was always in plays at school and in school concerts - you could say I liked to show off.

The great thing about stage is that you have a live audience.

'True Blood' allows you to be big, so it's almost like you're on stage, and I'm comfortable with that.