Beth Henley Quotes

As a student in London, I had seen so many shows, so many plays and had seen so many greats of the day.

Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play.

My plays are always pushing towards cinema anyway. They're down and dirty, real and more fun.

I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his friends met every two weeks or so to put on plays. So it was natural for me to put on plays, too, when I went to boarding school. I put on everything in the drama - I was indiscriminate. I put on Yeats and Shaw and Lady Gregory.

Characterization is integral to the theatrical experience.

I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays.

I did a lot of theater in the South side of Chicago.

My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language.

If you want to see theater you go to New York.

I'd love to do theater. I've done so many plays in my life. I still think of that as my main thing.

While I was growing up all over, in all my different schools, I was always doing theater, auditioning for plays.

I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing.

It was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays.

Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have that exposure to two different sorts of rural: the South and Appalachia.

I like playwriting because it's rooted in a single location with actors standing talking to each other.

I did plays in grade school.

When I first became an actress, I expected to do regional and classical theater; I just love the whole creative process.

Tim Robbins had real confidence in college. He literally stole actors from the theater department at UCLA to be in his plays. The department heads got so mad at him.

In New York, there are a lot of plays to see, and I try to see as many as I can.

Actually, every time I am back in New York, I read for as many plays as I can.

I have been doing acting my whole life. I did plays in high school. I take it pretty seriously. I used to do a lot of Shakespeare and Shakespearean festivals and monologues.

I spend a lot of time in California, but New York is still my main home. I go to see a lot of theater.

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.

As a kid, I was really into performing. I would do choruses, I would do musicals, whatever it was. And then, as a teenager, I got into an acting class at SUNY Purchase for gifted kids, and that really turned me on to material beyond musicals, Sam Shepard, and Christopher Durang plays.

I began coming to Paris in the 1960s when I was told audiences here liked my work. More than 20 of my plays have been produced in Paris, and several have had long runs and have returned in revivals.