Lenny Henry Quotes

Martin was very blunt with the ladies, no messing around: ‘Are you interested, love? Otherwise I’ve got a pie in the oven.’ He was a charmer.

for ideas, nor Lennie. Adrian was good with ideas, better than Henry. Have to be Adrian who was going to crack it, and then the team would all thrash it round. Wouldn’t see their feet for dust once they’d settled on an idea. Clear memories, faces clear in his mind, Colonel Basil, and Lennie who had the limp from the ambush in Cyprus, and Adrian who’d bloody near lost his career in the gentlemen’s toilet at Piccadilly underground, and Henry . . . Shit, and wouldn’t Henry have been up for retirement, gone to breed the bloody pigeons he always talked of. What if they’d

Baudelaire, William Blake, D. H. Lawrence, William Burroughs, Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Lenny Bruce, Ken Kesey, the Beatles, and Hunter S. Thompson were as much the fathers of Saturday Night as Kovacs, Carson, Benny, and Berle. Dan Aykroyd called it Gonzo Television. They were video guerrillas, he’d say. Every show was an assault mission.

Do I ever feel lonely? All the live-long day! But it’s not what many people imagine loneliness to be. It’s more a feeling of homelessness, of unbelonging, a sense that this is not my land, that I’m a traveller, passing through, for ever restless. You can stop for a while, you can enjoy generous hospitality, but you are always a guest, often welcome, but never at home. There is a loneliness that comes from being openly discriminated against, shut out, but there’s a subtler, creeping loneliness that comes from operating in environments that think they’ve got your back, that want to be inclusive and participatory, but that don’t see the thousand tiny ways in which the way they operate causes you problems every single day. This creeping version - the loneliness of a thousand cuts - stems, I guess, from the feeling that whatever you do, the world was set up by someone else to suit their needs, not yours. It’s not your world. You can live in it, but only if you’re prepared to accept their terms and conditions.