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

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

Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department.
Beth Henley

Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class.
Beth Henley

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

You can't just go in there and open your mouth until the cast and director feel comfortable with you.
Beth Henley