I 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.
BETH HENLEYAnd all writing is creating or spinning dreams for other people so they won’t have to bother doing it themselves.
More Beth Henley Quotes
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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 why they were sad and what they wanted, what they dreamed.
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In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class.
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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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I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.
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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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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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I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.
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I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I’d rather write plays.
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I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money.
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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.
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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 back to if that play gets trashed.
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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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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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I love writing for the screen.
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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 and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.
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