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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. "

Elizabeth Marvel

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" 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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" 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. "

Elizabeth Marvel

" 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

" 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

" I never had any preconceived ideas about acting, because I always thought I was going to be a visual artist. "

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

" 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

" 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

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

Elizabeth Marvel

" 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

" 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

" I don't believe in saying no. "

Elizabeth Marvel

" 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

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

Elizabeth Marvel

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

Elizabeth Marvel

" 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. "

Elizabeth Marvel

" 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

" You talk through what exactly happened to Howard Dean on the campaign trail, what Bill Clinton must have lived through, what the daily grind of doing what these people have to do. And they can never lose their temper, they can never be tired, and they can never slip up, or it's on-camera, and it's everywhere - and it's over. "

Elizabeth Marvel

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

Elizabeth Marvel

" 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

" I'm a hypervisual person. "

Elizabeth Marvel

" 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

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

Elizabeth Marvel

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

Elizabeth Marvel

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

Elizabeth Marvel

" 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

" If you can see it, you can be it. And I believe in that. "

Elizabeth Marvel

" 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. "

Elizabeth Marvel

" 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. "

Elizabeth Marvel

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

Elizabeth Marvel