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" I don't believe in saying no. "

Elizabeth Marvel

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" I was in several Shakespeare in the Park productions in my younger years, but I've been busy with other things for a while. "

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" 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.' "

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" The first play I ever did was with Michael Langham, Brian Bedford, and Colm Feore, at Stratford Festival. That was my first professional job, and I got to work with Garland Wright and so many great artists. "

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

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

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" I'm a hypervisual person. "

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

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" I was a spooky kid; that was just my nature. "

Elizabeth Marvel

" There comes a point in any project where you have to say - whether you like or understand the character, or the whole play for that matter - 'I believe!' "

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" You always hear about the disempowered actor, their fate in other people's hands. It's just really wonderful to experience it the other way around. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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" You know, the '80s, as crazy as the '80s were, that was a surprisingly kind and generous environment that I found myself in as a teenager. "

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" 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. "

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" When I finished high school, I didn't have much direction - I was a Deadhead kid who ended up bumming around London seeing a lot of theater. That's where I saw the performance that made me want to act: Vanessa Redgrave doing 'A Touch of the Poet.' "

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" 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. "

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

Elizabeth Marvel

" 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. "

Elizabeth Marvel

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

Elizabeth Marvel

" 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. "

Elizabeth Marvel

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

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" We have to be able to use our imaginations to make the character's experiences real to us. "

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

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" Whenever I approach any character, I try to find examples to draw upon. "

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