Top 26 Quotes by 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

My fault now is making my plays too short.

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

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.

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.