The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was… — Beth Henley Copy Share Image
Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department. — Beth Henley Copy Share Image
The most glorious thing about working in the collaborative art is when you have somebody like Susan Kingsley or Kathy Bates who are better… — Beth Henley Copy Share Image
I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money — Beth Henley Copy Share Image
But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright,… — Beth Henley Copy Share Image
I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays — Beth Henley Copy Share Image
It's really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don't get in… — Beth Henley Copy Share Image
My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana. — Beth Henley Copy Share Image
Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class. — Beth Henley Copy Share Image
Part of that is that New York has proved to be too much fun for me to live and work; I love New York… — Beth Henley Copy Share Image
That was always my inclination, to start on a new play before the other one gets done, because at least you'll have something to… — Beth Henley Copy Share Image
That's what I like about [smoking] . . . taking a drag off of death, Mmm! Gives me a sense of controlling my own… — Beth Henley Copy Share Image
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