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Beth Henley

(1952) Actor

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Beth Henley is an actor.

Quick Facts About Beth Henley

Born: May 8, 1952
Profession: Actor

About Beth Henley

[Wikidata] American writer and actor b. 1952... | [Wikipedia] Elizabeth Becker Henley is an American playwright, screenwriter, and actress. Her play Crimes of the Heart won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the 1981 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best American Play, and a nomination for a Tony Award. Her screenplay for Crimes of the Heart was nomina

Quotes by Beth Henley · Page 2

I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays

Couple

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Some really good things kind of swing both ways and I like to see people that can swing really, really, really sad…

Beautiful

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I love to work, although sometimes I can spend whole days doing nothing more than picking the lint off the carpet and…

Carpet

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And all writing is creating or spinning dreams for other people so they won't have to bother doing it themselves.

Bother

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I'm very into the first production of the show

Firsts

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Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department.

Dallas

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But when I got to SMU and decided to take a playwriting class, I said this isn't a bad idea. IfI write…

Bad idea

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