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All Quotes by author - Elizabeth Marvel

" As an actress, you have to be very naive. "

" By nature, my default place is a very introverted one, so it's funny to be in such an extroverted profession. I'm a little inappropriately in it. "

" Every time I do a play, I'm like, 'When do I get to do the one where I wear a gown, sit in a chair, and say funny things?' I'd love to do that. "

" How do you stand tall and strong as a woman while trying to be the smartest woman in the room and try to remain non-threatening? "

" I don't believe in saying no. "

" I don't look presidential. I don't wear, you know, three-piece suits and have my hair perfectly coiffed. "

" I ended up landing in London out of high school, and I saw a performance that Vanessa Redgrave gave, just because it was a cheap ticket, and I didn't know what to do with my afternoon, and I went in, and I saw this Eugene O'Neill play, and I sat in the fifth row, and I watched her. "

" If I'm asking people to give me two hours of their time, it's because I really feel like they need to listen to what the writer is talking about. "

" If someone can make money from you, you can do more things, and eventually, you can do things you come up with. "

" If you can see it, you can be it. And I believe in that. "

" I get to play a lot of powerful, smartest women in the room. And that's deeply satisfying. "

" I have no ability or interest to play that weak, beaten person. "

" I have to say, it seems to be the older I get, the better the work gets. When has that been true? "

" I just love the idea of doing an all-female play on Broadway. "

" I know all my tricks, and I'm pretty bored with them, so if that's all someone wants, I'd rather wait for TV money and not work so hard. "

" I love seeing people in their mess. I find that heartwarming. Charm just doesn't interest me. If I want to see charming people, I can watch TV. "

" I'm a hypervisual person. "

" I'm dying for people to let me be funny! "

" I'm not familiar with an unaccepting family. But in my profession, nothing can be foreign. "

" I never had any preconceived ideas about acting, because I always thought I was going to be a visual artist. "

" In some ways, I missed my era because I'm big and messy and have big feelings and take up space on a stage rather than being diminutive and childlike in my woman-ness. "

" I see a lot of art; we see a lot of music, films at Sundance... that influences me and informs me more than theater just because I make a bigger effort to see other art forms. "

" I see artists as the first responders. And when the proverbial crap hits the fan, we are there to be of service, to tell the story, to bring a balm, to soothe, to provide catharsis. You know, not to make our work any more important or less important, but just that there is a great importance to it. "

" I think being a mom changed me, and now it's not just about what I want to do and what's sort of interesting, but what I absolutely have to do. "

" I think every actor has those performances they've seen, the person who made them realize that's what they wanted to do. "

" I think there is a certain gravitas about me. My energy can be very big and yet contained. "

" It's all really nice to have my pretend Secret Service people paying me respect, but the moment I walk in the door, it's back to being 'Mom.' "

" It's really interesting because I'm a Quaker... so it's been radical to me to be hired by the Department of Defense under contract. "

" I've been around the block. "

" I've been told I'm bright. But when I act, I get incredibly stupid. I feel my intellect slowing down. I feel it happening physically. And that's not negative in acting! "

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