60 Quotes by Beth Henley

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I’m very into the first production of the show.