Beth Henley Quotes
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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
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Author Details:
Type:
Playwright Quotes
Category:
American Playwright Quotes
Date of Birth:
August 8, 1952
Nationality:
American
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Select Beth Henley Quotations:
I love writing for the screen.
Beth Henley
I'm very into the first production of the show.
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
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
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
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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All Beth Henley Quotations:
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I did write a couple of...
I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi...
I just loved being divorced from...
I love writing for the screen.
I tried to start a theatre...
I was just restless with being...
I'm very into the first production...
In movement class, you had to...
It was kind of enlightening to...
It's called Sisters of the Winter...
It's really interesting that whenever you...
My fault now is making my...
My first few plays took place...
Part of that is that New...
Plays are so much more special...
Some really good things kind of...
Somehow I got to be one...
That was always my inclination, to...
The impetus behind going to graduate...
The most glorious thing about working...
The next thing I wrote was...
Then I went off to Southern...
Then, when I was a senior...
What I loved about the acting...
You can't just go in there...
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