On top of trying to find my way in this business and losing my mother and trying to figure out what family meant to me and everything - 2016, there was a lot of anger from me and a lot of anger all around. I think the hardest part was to really realize that all these things, it's worth it.

Brian Tyree Henry

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

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 that's really good at uniting people.

Brian Tyree Henry

Atlanta, in itself, is its own living, breathing thing.

Brian Tyree Henry

Atlanta's a great city to cultivate your own thing - from fashion to music to food.

Brian Tyree Henry

I was in show choir in high school.

Brian Tyree Henry

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

Brian Tyree Henry

My sisters were teenagers when I was born, so the last thing they wanted was a little nappy-headed boy running around. I would imitate them or copy things off TV.

Brian Tyree Henry

You play the honesty of the characters and show a side of them that people can relate to and want to get to know.

Brian Tyree Henry

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

Brian Tyree Henry

I hope that there's a little black boy somewhere in Montana that never thought that he would see a reflection of himself, and he turns on the television, like, 'Oh my God, thank you.'

Brian Tyree Henry

Every time you get in front of the lights and the cameras and you think, 'Okay, well, we've done this before, but we have to do it again? Oh, we're doing it again? We're doing it again?' It's so gratifying, but I don't think I'll ever get used to it. I hope I won't.

Brian Tyree Henry

The most important thing I feel in the acting profession is to create a community that reflects you back to you.

Brian Tyree Henry

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

After my mother and father separated when I was 5, my mother moved to Washington, D.C., and my father remained in North Carolina. Later, I moved to New York and would often drive down to D.C. to see her. We'd ride around together talking and listening to music.

Brian Tyree Henry

You can't share your magic with everyone. Your job is to live within your magic. And if other magical people find you, then let's go and make a brew.

Brian Tyree Henry

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

Brian Tyree Henry

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

Brian Tyree Henry

I never thought that 'Atlanta' would go off and do what it was gonna do. I never thought that I would get recognized for that show the way that I have been.

Brian Tyree Henry

I've discovered people in my lifetime who are like, 'I always wanted to sing but... ' It's like, 'Well then, did you try?' My thing was always not caring about failure.

Brian Tyree Henry

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

Brian Tyree Henry