Taraji P. Henson Quotes
With camera phones and, you know, iPad's and cameras at stoplights, it's like I just want to drive around with a bag on my head because I just feel like everyone's watching.
Henson, Taraji P. "Taraji P. Henson on 'Person of Interest'." Interview by Mandi Bierly, Entertainment Weekly, Dotdash Meredith, 17 Nov. 2011.
In 2007 a new phenomenon appeared on the political scene where people who had taken amateur videos of politicians with inexpensive cameras or even cell phones began to “publish” them on a video web site called “U-Tube” which allowed anyone to do this for free. Suddenly the potentially or actually embarrassing video was not only able to be viewed by millions but via e-mail millions more were made aware of the video’s existence. In 24 hours an embarrassing video had more viewers then would see it on the national evening news. Brody was the first person to give it a name and warn politicians about the problem—The U-Tube Moment.
Taraji Penda Henson is an American actress. She studied acting at Howard University and began her Hollywood career in guest roles on several television shows before making her breakthrough in Baby Boy (2001). She received praise for her performances as a prostitute in Hustle & Flow (2005), for which she received a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture nomination; and as a single mother of a disabled child in David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), for which she received Academy Award, SAG Award and Critics Choice Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress. In 2010, she appeared in the action comedy Date Night, and co-starred in the remake of The Karate Kid.
