Quotes from Henry Thomas

Whenever I have an opportunity, I catch a train and go to Wales and hire a car and drive around.

I've got a lot of crazy plans.

Carloads of tourists would photograph the family mailbox, and there was weird mail, death threats.

I was highly sensitive and still am, but as a kid I could tap into my emotional state rather easily.

I figured out that I could think of my childhood dog that had died, and I could bring myself to tears. So I used that poor dead dog for several years until it just didn't work anymore, and I had to find something else.

I probably complicate things unnecessarily now just to give the illusion of professionalism.

I don't know if I was so much of an outsider until after I started doing films. That put me on the outside. I grew up in Texas, and I wasn't the child of industry parents, and I didn't have a lot of friends in the industry or anything like that.

The hardest thing about being a kid actor is just kind of separating 'this is my professional life' and 'this is my kid life.' That was always the hard part for me.

The one thing I've always done is to try not to overcomplicate anything.

The idea of a film staying in theaters for a year is something of a fantasy today.

I was getting a lot of hassles from the public. Everybody recognized me.

It's harder to laugh than to cry.

Seeing a time period captured in film, you know, it does make you feel nostalgic.

I remember, when I was a kid in the '70s and '80s, the '50s were really cool. And then the '60s were really cool. And then the '70s.

If I can generate enough income, I'd like to get a castle, a historic castle that I can restore.

My son, who is 7, he passed a car in a parking lot that was probably a 1998 model, and he said, 'Wow, Dad, look at that old car.' I was looking around for an old car, and I realized that my old car maybe stops at 1965.

It was like that for the first six months after 'E.T.' was in cinemas. I'd go out and get mobbed. I was a shy kid, and being approached by adults all the time just freaked me out.

Every life moves far too swiftly. A few anecdotes, one or two passages of laughter, a midnight flight of sorrow, and then the end.

I have horses, I drive a truck, and I wear cowboy boots. First I'm a Texan.

Mike Flanagan wants to work with me again, and I would love to work with him again.

Many times you walk into a room and people have already made up their minds. But it's always good to have something great associated with you.

Even if I had a tuxedo I wouldn't wear it to school.

I can't stay in L.A. too long or it starts to grow on me in a bad way.

I got so tired of everybody talking about 'Stranger Things,' I think I developed a mental block against watching it.