I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I’d rather write plays.
BETH HENLEYI love to work, although sometimes I can spend whole days doing nothing more than picking the lint off the carpet and talking to my mother on the phone.
More Beth Henley Quotes
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My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana.
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That’s what I like about [smoking] . . . taking a drag off of death, Mmm! Gives me a sense of controlling my own destiny. What power! What exhilaration! Want a drag?
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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 your play.
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I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.
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I love writing for the screen.
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I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.
BETH HENLEYI was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.
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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 much.
BETH HENLEYPart of that is that New York has proved to be too much fun for me to live and work; I love New York so much.
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I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money.
BETH HENLEYI tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money.
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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.
BETH HENLEYIt’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.
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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 it better with each production.
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There are probably brilliant people, geniuses, alive today who don’t even know how to say, “Hello, how do you do?” because their minds are absorbed with electronic images.
BETH HENLEYThere are probably brilliant people, geniuses, alive today who don’t even know how to say, “Hello, how do you do?” because their minds are absorbed with electronic images.
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In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class.
BETH HENLEYIn movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class.
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I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.
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I’m very into the first production of the show.
BETH HENLEYI’m very into the first production of the show.
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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 being an actress.
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