Beth Henley Quotes & Sayings
26 most famous Beth Henley quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for her. She's a 72 year old American playwright born on May 8, 1952.
“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.”
“Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department.”
“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.”
“My fault now is making my plays too short.”
“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.”
“In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class.”
“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.”
“My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana.”
“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.”
“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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