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" I have to say, it seems to be the older I get, the better the work gets. When has that been true? "
Elizabeth Marvel
Better
Older
Work
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" Tim Burton is an artist who has had a huge influence on me. I definitely share his sensibility. It's a joyful approach to darkness. "
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" I'm not familiar with an unaccepting family. But in my profession, nothing can be foreign. "
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" 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. "
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" I've been around the block. "
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" 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 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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" I'm dying for people to let me be funny! "
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" If you can see it, you can be it. And I believe in that. "
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" As an actress, you have to be very naive. "
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" Personally, I don't want to do theater that's very stylish, when it's just stories on stage that are basically the same as TV or film. "
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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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" We have to be able to use our imaginations to make the character's experiences real to us. "
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" I just love the idea of doing an all-female play on Broadway. "
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" 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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" Trying to find a way to represent something that is truly frightening on stage is a fascinating challenge. "
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Find
" 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 will happily work anywhere they need me to if they pay me well. "
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" My God, I have so much bounty in my life. "
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My Life
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" There are lots of rats. It's a dirty little secret at the Delacorte Theatre. "
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" When I work onstage, I want to play roles that have real, deep theatricality, that aren't the sort you would easily see on television and in the movies. "
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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 believe in saying no. "
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Saying
Believe
" When I was nursing my son, you're up all the time during the first year, and you're sort of brain dead. So I'd find myself watching Turner Classic Movies at odd hours. "
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Brain
Movies
Myself
" 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. "
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Effort
Art
" I get to play a lot of powerful, smartest women in the room. And that's deeply satisfying. "
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" I think every actor has those performances they've seen, the person who made them realize that's what they wanted to do. "
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" 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. "
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" Who wouldn't want to play the leader of the free world? "
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" 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. "
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Little