60 Quotes by Beth Henley

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.

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

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

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

The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress.

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.

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.

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.

My fault now is making my plays too short.