60 Quotes by Beth Henley

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.

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

I love writing for the screen.

But when I got to SMU and decided to take a playwriting class, I said this isn't a bad idea. IfI write characters, they could be as dumb as me, and I don't have to be very smart.

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.

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?

I didn't really know how to get it to a producer or how to get it to an agent. Nobody's going to look at it unless it's a success.

I think that people have to be able to see two sides of the coin to survive because it is a racist society and yet you're being raised by racists.

I wrote a play in sixth grade called Swing High, Swing Low. It was about Dolly, a girl who lives in the suburbs and goes to New York to be an artist.