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" I think there is a certain gravitas about me. My energy can be very big and yet contained. "
Elizabeth Marvel
I Think
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Me
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" I just love the idea of doing an all-female play on Broadway. "
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Just
" If you can see it, you can be it. And I believe in that. "
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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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Know
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" As an actress, you have to be very naive. "
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" I'm a hypervisual person. "
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" I'm dying for people to let me be funny! "
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People
" 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. "
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" My God, I have so much bounty in my life. "
Elizabeth Marvel
Much
My Life
Bounty
" 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!' "
Elizabeth Marvel
Believe
Character
Like
" 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.' "
Elizabeth Marvel
Me
School
Performance
" I get to play a lot of powerful, smartest women in the room. And that's deeply satisfying. "
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Smartest
Women
Room
" We have to be able to use our imaginations to make the character's experiences real to us. "
Elizabeth Marvel
Real
Character
Experiences
" 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. "
Elizabeth Marvel
Crazy
Environment
Know
" 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. "
Elizabeth Marvel
Same
Film
Just
" 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. "
Elizabeth Marvel
Want
Me
Interesting
" OK, so I'm a working mom that also gets to kiss George Clooney. That's a little bit of a perk of the job. "
Elizabeth Marvel
Little
Kiss
Job
" 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. "
Elizabeth Marvel
Place
Funny
Little
" 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. "
Elizabeth Marvel
Work
You
Television
" The audience has its own gestalt, and it becomes another character - a character that changes each night. "
Elizabeth Marvel
Audience
Changes
Night
" 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. "
Elizabeth Marvel
Great
Story
Work
" 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. "
Elizabeth Marvel
Funny
Love
Say
" I was in several Shakespeare in the Park productions in my younger years, but I've been busy with other things for a while. "
Elizabeth Marvel
Been
Years
Busy
" Whenever I approach any character, I try to find examples to draw upon. "
Elizabeth Marvel
Try
Character
Approach
" I'm not familiar with an unaccepting family. But in my profession, nothing can be foreign. "
Elizabeth Marvel
Familiar
Profession
Family
" I went to an art school in high school and got in a little trouble like you do when you're a teenager and not being closely supervised. I did. I followed the Dead around, and it was fun. It was great. It was kind and sweet and lovely. "
Elizabeth Marvel
You
School
Great
" 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? "
Elizabeth Marvel
You
Try
Trying
" If someone can make money from you, you can do more things, and eventually, you can do things you come up with. "
Elizabeth Marvel
Someone
More
Things
" 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. "
Elizabeth Marvel
Me
Artist
Darkness
" I will happily work anywhere they need me to if they pay me well. "
Elizabeth Marvel
Work
Will
Well