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" I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles. "
Beth Henley
School
Just
Los Angeles
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" 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. "
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" Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class. "
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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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" I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays. "
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" My fault now is making my plays too short. "
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Too
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" 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. "
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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 really, really, really beautiful and funny. "
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" 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. "
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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 and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress. "
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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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