Top 19 Quotes & Sayings by Dwight Henry

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actor Dwight Henry.
Last updated on April 14, 2025.
Dwight Henry

Dwight Henry is an American actor, baker, and businessman. He is best known for his role as Wink, Hushpuppy's father, in the film Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012). Additionally, Henry is the founder of the Buttermilk Drop Bakery in New Orleans.

Baking is my business, and it will always come first.
They say I'm a natural, I have natural charisma. People say that. I don't know.
I wouldn't sacrifice my business for no acting career because my business is something, ultimately, that I know I'm going to pass down to my kids, and that's most important to me than anything else in the world. I can't pass an acting career down to my children.
I have four boys and one girl. My daughter is my only little girl and I just love her to death. I can't even fix my mouth to tell her 'no' for anything. — © Dwight Henry
I have four boys and one girl. My daughter is my only little girl and I just love her to death. I can't even fix my mouth to tell her 'no' for anything.
Living on the Gulf Coast, we often have to go through dangerous situations, whether you're a child, an adult or a senior citizen.
I'm not the Hollywood type. I'm not going to pack up my bags and let me move to Hollywood and stuff like that.
I love California. I love Hollywood.
I've been through a lot of struggles.
Everything that I do in my life is geared towards my kids and their survival and giving them the best education that I can possibly give them and the best home that I can possibly give them.
Music knits people together in some strange way. Same thing with food.
When you're six years old, you don't look at things the way an adult looks at things.
You never know when you're going to get an opportunity.
I constantly worry about my family and my kids. 'Are they O.K., what are they doing right now?'
I'm not ready to pack my bags and leave the town and my business that I love and my kids that I love more than anything and pack them up and come to Hollywood. I love California. I love Hollywood. But I'm not ready to uproot what I believe in to come to Hollywood.
I'm not the Hollywood type of person.
My kids are the most important people in the world to me.
I can't pass on an acting career to my kids. But I'm going to try to juggle both.
I've been through a lot of struggles, even though I'm young.
No matter what's offered to me, I would never in a million years be the big headed Hollywood type. — © Dwight Henry
No matter what's offered to me, I would never in a million years be the big headed Hollywood type.
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