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.

I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays.

My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana.

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.

I don't think they're going to pay me to play Mufasa.

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.