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 w…

- Beth Henley

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 pho…

- Beth Henley

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 exhilarati…

- Beth Henley

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 p…

- Beth Henley

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 product…

- Beth Henley

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

- Beth Henley

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 copyrigh…

- Beth Henley

I love writing for the screen.

- Beth Henley

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

- Beth Henley