"But when I got to SMU and decided to take a playwriting class, I said this isn't a bad idea. IfI write characters, they could be as dumb as me, and I don't have to be very smart."

-- Beth Henley

#Smart Quotes #Writing Quotes #Character Quotes

“Lust is the base of most physical ills, and like a tapeworm in the system, it feeds on our best energies and vitality.”
“When I was eight years old I went to visit my brother who was working on a movie of the week with my mother and I saw how much fun he was having and I decided I wanted to try it too.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“This whole notion of the acting career as a monopoly where you rise to power... it doesn't really work that way. I don't ever really feel powerful in any way. It's kind of the same thing it's always been: You just figure out what you want to do and you do it.”
“How wrong it is for those who love, not to express their love.”
“Oh, lady be good To me.”

Source : "Oh, Lady, Be Good!" (song) (1924)
“When I wake up in the morning, I just can't get started until I've had that first, piping hot pot of coffee. Oh, I've tried other enemas.”
“All these seven colors are part of one rainbow, yet they are all different. They have their own quality, their own identity, their own flavor to it. So it is a rainbow. The Divine loves diversity, that is why he made us all different.”
“My work never directly addresses the literal subject matter of the photograph, but attempts to ask questions about vision itself.”

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