Top 26 Quotes by 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.

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

Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department.

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

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

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.

My fault now is making my plays too short.

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.

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.