Beth Henley Quotes

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• The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store…
• Part of that is that New York has proved to be too much fun for me to live and work; I love New York so…
• My fault now is making my plays too short.
• Some really good things kind of swing both ways and I like to see people that can swing really, really, really sad and horrible and…
• Plays are so much more special if they've never ever had a production, but I think you can really work on a play and make…
• My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana.
• 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 go…
• Somehow I got to be one of five or six actors that the directors would use as guinea pigs at this directing colloquium, where people…
• And all writing is creating or spinning dreams for other people so they won't have to bother doing it themselves.
• I'm very into the first production of the show
• 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 trouble
• In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class
• I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money
• I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays
• I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays
• 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, you…
• It's called Sisters of the Winter Madrigal. It was interesting for me to see it done after so many years; because I wrote it and…
• But when I got to SMU and decided to take a playwriting class, I said this isn't a bad idea. IfI write characters, they could…
• 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…
• What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn't you, and figure out…

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