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.
BETH HENLEYI was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.
More Beth Henley Quotes
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I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.
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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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And all writing is creating or spinning dreams for other people so they won’t have to bother doing it themselves.
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I love writing for the screen.
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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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I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.
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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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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 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 called Sisters of the Winter Madrigal. It was interesting for me to see it done after so many years; because I wrote it and I didn’t realize what a rage I was in.
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I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.
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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.
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I’m very into the first production of the show.
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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 characters, they could be as dumb as me, and I don’t have to be very smart.
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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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