Lenny Henry Quotes

#1. I always thought that as much as I love 'White Jazz,' it became almost unfilmable at some point, because there are so many strands, so much, and it became so psychotic ... that's what made it such a great book, but those things would not carry over into the filmic realm, I thought, with ease.

Joe Carnahan

#2. The filming of Shakespeare is always problematic, because he hates posing for the camera

Lenny Henry

#3. The right of each individual in any relation to secure to himself the full benefits of his intelligence, his capacity, his industry and skill are among the inalienable inheritances of humanity.

Leland Stanford

#4. It was really bizarre. I was learning how to be a black guy from a white guy pretending to be a black man.

Lenny Henry

#5. That's where depression hits you most - your home life. It doesn't affect your work. I can't do this zany, wacky, funny thing any more. I haven't been like that for a long time.

Lenny Henry

#6. Anything that happens that's good, they think, Oh, it's an accident, when is the roof caving in? You've got to get them out of that mental framework.

Dick Butkus

#7. They don't make red noses to fit black people. I have a wide nose like a Volkswagen and I have never had a red nose that fitted me.

Lenny Henry

#8. I don't wear mini-skirts or shorts because I have thread veins on my legs and cellulite, and I won't wear tights.

Marie Helvin

#9. Ecstasy is a drug so powerful, it makes white people think they can dance.

Lenny Henry

#10. My voice was pretty good almost all through Othello. Alexander Technique really helped my posture and focus.

Lenny Henry

#11. To Sell Is Human, "Like it or not, we're all in sales now.

Carmine Gallo

#12. When shit becomes valuable, the poor will be born without assholes.

Henry Miller