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  • Beth Henley Quote - 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.
  • Beth Henley Quote - 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.
  • Beth Henley Quote - 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.
  • Beth Henley Quote - 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.
  • Beth Henley Quote - 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.
  • Beth Henley Quote - 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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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.

Beth Henley

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beth Henley Quote - 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.

    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.

    BETH HENLEY
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beth Henley Quote - But here’s the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright.

    But here’s the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright.

    BETH HENLEY
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beth Henley Quote - 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.

    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.

    BETH HENLEY
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beth Henley Quote - Somehow I got to be one of five or six actors that the directors would use as guinea pigs at this directing colloquium, where people pay to listen to and watch the directors direct.

    Somehow I got to be one of five or six actors that the directors would use as guinea pigs at this directing colloquium, where people pay to listen to and watch the directors direct.

    BETH HENLEY
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beth Henley Quote - 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.

    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 HENLEY
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beth Henley Quote - 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.

    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 HENLEY
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beth Henley Quote - 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.

    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.

    BETH HENLEY
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beth Henley Quote - I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.

    I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.

    BETH HENLEY
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beth Henley Quote - I love writing for the screen.

    I love writing for the screen.

    BETH HENLEY
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beth Henley Quote - 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.

    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 HENLEY
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beth Henley Quote - 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.

    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.

    BETH HENLEY
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beth Henley Quote - I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money.

    I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money.

    BETH HENLEY
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beth Henley Quote - 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?

    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?

    BETH HENLEY
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beth Henley Quote - 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.

    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 HENLEY
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beth Henley Quote - 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.

    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.

    BETH HENLEY
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Beth Henley Quote - 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.

    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 HENLEY