Beth Henley Quotes

• 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

  Novelists, Poet, Copyright

  "Expressing "The Misery and Confusion Truthfully": An Interview with Beth Henley". "American Drama" Journal, Vol. 14, No. 1, 2005.

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• That's what I like about [smoking] . . . taking a drag off of death, Mmm! Gives me a sense of controlling my own destiny. What power! What exhilaration! Want a drag?

  Beth Henley

  Destiny, Giving, Smoking

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• I find it fascinating to think about what the world is going to be like when people won't talk anymore.

  Beth Henley

  Pensamiento, Gente, Mundo

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• 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.

  Beth Henley

  Thinking, Play, Special

  "Expressing "The Misery and Confusion Truthfully": An Interview with Beth Henley". "American Drama" Journal, Vol. 14, No. 1, 2005.

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• 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.

  Beth Henley

  People, Mind, Live For Today

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• El impulso para ir a la escuela de posgrado fue el año que pasé en Dallas trabajando en la fábrica de comida para perros y en el Bank America después de graduarme en la universidad, sin haber tenido éxito en el campo que había elegido, que en ese momento era ser actriz.

  Beth Henley

  Dog, School, College

  Interview with Jackson R. Bryer, www.encyclopedia.com. 2005.

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• 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.

  Beth Henley

  Play, Done, Inclination

  "Expressing "The Misery and Confusion Truthfully": An Interview with Beth Henley". "American Drama" Journal, Vol. 14, No. 1, 2005.

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• 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.

  Beth Henley

  Mother, Phones, Talking

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• 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.

  Beth Henley

  Thinking, Class, Long

  Interview with Jackson R. Bryer, www.encyclopedia.com.

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• It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.

  Beth Henley

  Kind, Enlightening, Playwright

  "Expressing 'the Misery and Confusion Truthfully'". Interview with Jackson R. Bryer, American Drama, Volume 14, No. 1 (p. 87), Winter 2005.

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• I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.

  Beth Henley

  Divorced, Wretchedness, My Own

  "Expressing 'the Misery and Confusion Truthfully'". Interview with Jackson R. Bryer, American Drama, Volume 14, No. 1 (p. 87), Winter 2005.

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• 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.

  Beth Henley

  Arte, juego, arte es

  "Expressing 'the Misery and Confusion Truthfully'". Interview with Jackson R. Bryer, American Drama, Volume 14, No. 1 (p. 87), Winter 2005.

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

  Beth Henley

  Play, Lucky, Louisiana

  "Expressing "The Misery and Confusion Truthfully": An Interview with Beth Henley". "American Drama" Journal, Vol. 14, No. 1, 2005.

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• And all writing is creating or spinning dreams for other people so they won't have to bother doing it themselves.

  Beth Henley

  Dream, Writing, Creating

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• 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.

  Beth Henley

  New York, Fun, Too Much

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• 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.

  Beth Henley

  Character, Emotional, Interesting

  Interview with Jackson R. Bryer, www.encyclopedia.com. September 30, 2002.

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• 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.

  Beth Henley

  Christmas, Writing, School

  Interview with Jackson R. Bryer, www.encyclopedia.com. 2005.

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

  Beth Henley

  Couple, Writing, Play

  "Expressing "The Misery and Confusion Truthfully": An Interview with Beth Henley". "American Drama" Journal, Vol. 14, No. 1, 2005.

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• My fault now is making my plays too short.

  Beth Henley

  Play, Faults, Too Short

  Interview with Jackson R. Bryer, www.encyclopedia.com. September 30, 2002.

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• 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.

  Beth Henley

  Beautiful, Swings, Funny Things

  "Expressing "The Misery and Confusion Truthfully": An Interview with Beth Henley". "American Drama" Journal, Vol. 14, No. 1, 2005.

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• 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.

  Beth Henley

  Pigs, People, Directors

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

  Beth Henley

  Firsts, Shows, Productions

  "Expressing "The Misery and Confusion Truthfully": An Interview with Beth Henley". "American Drama" Journal, Vol. 14, No. 1, 2005.

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

  Beth Henley

  Lying, Class, Movement

  "Expressing "The Misery and Confusion Truthfully": An Interview with Beth Henley". "American Drama" Journal, Vol. 14, No. 1, 2005.

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

  Beth Henley

  School, Los Angeles, Restless

  "Expressing 'the Misery and Confusion Truthfully'". Interview with Jackson R. Bryer, American Drama, Volume 14, No. 1 (p. 87), Winter 2005.

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• I love writing for the screen.

  Beth Henley

  Writing, Screens

  "Expressing 'the Misery and Confusion Truthfully'". Interview with Jackson R. Bryer, American Drama, Volume 14, No. 1 (p. 87), Winter 2005.

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