Quotes by Beth Henley - Page 1

I love writing for the screen.
Beth Henley / Dramatist
Screens
Writing
Screen
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My fault now is making my plays too short.
Beth Henley / Dramatist
Faults
Play
Too Short
Plays
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I'm very into the first production of the show.
Beth Henley / Dramatist
Firsts
Productions
Shows
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It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.
Beth Henley / Dramatist
Enlightening
Kind
Playwright
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I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.
Beth Henley / Dramatist
Divorced
My Own
Wretchedness
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I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.
Beth Henley / Dramatist
Los Angeles
Restless
School
Angeles
Los
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I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays.
Beth Henley / Dramatist
Couple
Play
Screenplays
Writing
Plays
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In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class.
Beth Henley / Dramatist
Alignment
Class
Lying
Movement
Lie
Floor
Pass
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Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class.
Beth Henley / Dramatist
Bereft
Senior
Me School Acting
Acting Class
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I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money.
Beth Henley / Dramatist
Raises
Theatre
Meant
Failed
La
Raise
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I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.
Beth Henley / Dramatist
Community Theatre
Mississippi
Mother
Play
Suburbia
Theatre
Jackson
Plays
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You can't just go in there and open your mouth until the cast and director feel comfortable with you.
Beth Henley / Dramatist
Director
Cast
Feel Your Comfortable
Mouth
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I find it fascinating to think about what the world is going to be like when people won't talk anymore.
Beth Henley / Dramatist
People
Thinking
World
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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.
Beth Henley / Dramatist
Louisiana
Lucky
Play
Spot
Plays
Thirties
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Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department.
Beth Henley / Dramatist
Dallas
Department
Southern
Theatre
University
Methodist
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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.
Beth Henley / Dramatist
New York
Fun
Too Much
Love Work Me
Proved
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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.
Beth Henley / Dramatist
Dream
Creating
Writing
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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.
Beth Henley / Dramatist
Character
Emotional
Interesting
Outburst
Whenever
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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.
Beth Henley / Dramatist
Copyright
Novelists
Poet
Sell
Maintain
Screenwriter
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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.
Beth Henley / Dramatist
Mother
Phones
Talking
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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 / Dramatist
Play
Special
Thinking
Production
Plays
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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.
Beth Henley / Dramatist
Art
Art Is
Glorious
Play
Collaborative
Susan
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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?
Beth Henley / Dramatist
Destiny
Giving
Smoking
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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 / Dramatist
Done
Inclination
Play
Start New Always
Trashed
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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.
Beth Henley / Dramatist
Sister
Interesting
Winter
Years
Sisters
Me Done See
Realize
So Many Years
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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.
Beth Henley / Dramatist
Live For Today
Mind
People
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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.
Beth Henley / Dramatist
Christmas
Smile
Mississippi
Night
School
Writing
Dime
Laurel
Next Thing
Store
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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.
Beth Henley / Dramatist
Character
Smart
Writing
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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.
Beth Henley / Dramatist
Sad
Class
Long
Thinking
Acting Class
All Day
Dreamed
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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.
Beth Henley / Dramatist
Direct
Directors
Guinea
Guinea Pigs
People
Pigs
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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.
Beth Henley / Dramatist
Sad
Beautiful
Funny Things
Good Things
Horrible
Swings
Terrible
Funny Sad Good
Both Ways
Swing
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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.
Beth Henley / Dramatist
Chosen
College
Dallas
Dog
Dog Food
Graduate School
Impetus
School
Actress
Bank
Factory
Graduate
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