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" I'm a hypervisual person. "

Elizabeth Marvel

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

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" 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. "

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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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" 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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" Trying to find a way to represent something that is truly frightening on stage is a fascinating challenge. "

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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 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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" 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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" 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. "

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

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

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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? "

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" 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. "

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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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" 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? "

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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 don't believe in saying no. "

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" My God, I have so much bounty in my life. "

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

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

Elizabeth Marvel

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

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" The audience has its own gestalt, and it becomes another character - a character that changes each night. "

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