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" I will happily work anywhere they need me to if they pay me well. "
Elizabeth Marvel
Work
Will
Well
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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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" If you can see it, you can be it. And I believe in that. "
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" Whenever I approach any character, I try to find examples to draw upon. "
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" I don't believe in saying no. "
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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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Crazy
Environment
Know
" 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
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" I think there is a certain gravitas about me. My energy can be very big and yet contained. "
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I Think
Think
Me
" I never had any preconceived ideas about acting, because I always thought I was going to be a visual artist. "
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Thought
Ideas
Artist
" 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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Performance
High School
School
" 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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Experience
You
People
" I don't look presidential. I don't wear, you know, three-piece suits and have my hair perfectly coiffed. "
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Look
Know
Hair
" 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
" 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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Someone
More
Things
" Trying to find a way to represent something that is truly frightening on stage is a fascinating challenge. "
Elizabeth Marvel
Stage
Challenge
Find
" My God, I have so much bounty in my life. "
Elizabeth Marvel
Much
My Life
Bounty
" As an actress, you have to be very naive. "
Elizabeth Marvel
Very
You
Naive
" 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
" I have no ability or interest to play that weak, beaten person. "
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Ability
Weak
Person
" I'm dying for people to let me be funny! "
Elizabeth Marvel
Funny
Me
People
" 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. "
Elizabeth Marvel
Find
Love
Me
" 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. "
Elizabeth Marvel
Brain
Movies
Myself
" I get to play a lot of powerful, smartest women in the room. And that's deeply satisfying. "
Elizabeth Marvel
Smartest
Women
Room
" 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! "
Elizabeth Marvel
Down
Feel
Negative
" I was a spooky kid; that was just my nature. "
Elizabeth Marvel
Spooky
Just
Kid
" We are in this amazing age of television where there's an incredible amount and an incredible quality of television, of long-form narrative. "
Elizabeth Marvel
Amazing
Television
Quality
" 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
" 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
Television
" 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
Actor
Realize
Seen
" There are lots of rats. It's a dirty little secret at the Delacorte Theatre. "
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Rats
Theatre
Secret