All Beth Henley Quotes
- 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… All
- 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… Fun
- My fault now is making my plays too short. Fault
- 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… Beautiful
- 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… Better
- My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana. Few
- 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… Gets Done
- 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… Actor
- And all writing is creating or spinning dreams for other people so they won't have to bother doing it themselves. All
- I'm very into the first production of the show First Production
- 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 Character
- In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class Alignment
- I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money Failed
- I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays Community
- I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays Couple
- 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… Copyright
- 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… Called
- 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… Bad
- 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… Actress
- 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… Acting
- I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness. Divorced
- I love writing for the screen. Funny
- I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles. Angeles
- It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright. Enlightening
- The most glorious thing about working in the collaborative art is when you have somebody like Susan Kingsley or Kathy Bates who are better than… Art