You can’t just go in there and open your mouth until the cast and director feel comfortable with you. Beth Henley Read Quote
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. Beth Henley Read Quote
Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class. Beth Henley Read Quote
Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department. Beth Henley Read Quote
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. Beth Henley Read Quote
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. Beth Henley Read Quote
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 and watch the directors direct. Beth Henley Read Quote
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. Beth Henley Read Quote
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. Beth Henley Read Quote
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. Beth Henley Read Quote
