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Top 25 Beth Henley Quotes (2024 Update)

Beth Henley Quote: “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.”

1. “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.”

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Beth Henley Quote: “I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I’d rather write plays.”

2. “I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I’d rather write plays.”

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Beth Henley Quote: “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.”

3. “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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Beth Henley Quote: “I find it fascinating to think about what the world is going to be like when people won’t talk anymore.”

4. “I find it fascinating to think about what the world is going to be like when people won’t talk anymore.”

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Beth Henley Quote: “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.”

5. “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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Beth Henley Quote: “It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.”

6. “It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.”

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Beth Henley Quote: “My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana.”

7. “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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Beth Henley Quote: “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.”

8. “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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Beth Henley Quote: “In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class.”

9. “In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class.”

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Beth Henley Quote: “And all writing is creating or spinning dreams for other people so they won’t have to bother doing it themselves.”

10. “And all writing is creating or spinning dreams for other people so they won’t have to bother doing it themselves.”

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Beth Henley Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

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Beth Henley Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

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Beth Henley Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

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Beth Henley Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

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Beth Henley Quote: “My fault now is making my plays too short.”

15. “My fault now is making my plays too short.”

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Beth Henley Quote: “I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money.”

16. “I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money.”

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Beth Henley Quote: “I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.”

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

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Beth Henley Quote: “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.”

18. “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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Beth Henley Quote: “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.”

19. “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.”

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Beth Henley Quote: “I’m very into the first production of the show.”

20. “I’m very into the first production of the show.”

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Beth Henley Quote: “I love writing for the screen.”

21. “I love writing for the screen.”

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Beth Henley Quote: “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.”

22. “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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Beth Henley Quote: “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.”

23. “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 Quote: “I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.”

24. “I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.”

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Beth Henley Quote: “I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.”

25. “I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.”

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Beth Henley Quote: “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.”

26. “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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Beth Henley Quote: “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.”

27. “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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Beth Henley Quote: “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.”

28. “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

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