Beth Henley Quotes

• My fault now is making my plays too short.

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• 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.

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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 was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.

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• I’m very into the first production of the show.

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• I love writing for the screen.

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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 just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.

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• I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I’d rather write plays.

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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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• It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.

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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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• 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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• Some really good things kind of swing both ways and I like to see people that can swing really, really, really sad and horrible and terrible and really, really, really beautiful and funny.

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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.

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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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• 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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• 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.

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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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Beth Henley (26)

Birth:	8th May, 1952
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress, Dramatist

About

Beth Henley is an American dramatist and actress. She writes primarily about women's issues and family in the Southern United States. She is also a screenwriter who has written many film adaptations of her plays. She is known for her intertwining comic and serious moments in her pieces.

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