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26 quotes by Beth Henley

Elizabeth Becker "Beth" Henley (born May 8, 1952) is an American dramatist and actress. She writes primarily about women's issues and family in the Southern United States. She is also a screenwriter who has written many film adaptations of her plays. She is known for her intertwining comic and serious moments in her pieces. Her most famous play, Crimes of the Heart (1978), was her first produced professionally. It opened at the Actors Theatre of...
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Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department.

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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... →

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

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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... →

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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.

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It's called Sisters of the Winter Madrigal. It was interesting for me to see it done after so many years; because I wrote it and I didn't... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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

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

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I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.

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