Top 26 Quotes by Beth Henley

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

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.

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

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.

I'm very into the first production of the show.

It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.

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.

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.

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

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.