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.
BETH HENLEYIt’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.
More Beth Henley Quotes
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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 love writing for the screen.
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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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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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It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.
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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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I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.
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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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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 just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.
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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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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 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.
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I’m very into the first production of the show.
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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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