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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. "
Elizabeth Marvel
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" 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. "
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" I don't believe in saying no. "
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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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" 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'm dying for people to let me be funny! "
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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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" I don't look presidential. I don't wear, you know, three-piece suits and have my hair perfectly coiffed. "
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" 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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" I've been around the block. "
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" 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.' "
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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 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 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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" I never had any preconceived ideas about acting, because I always thought I was going to be a visual artist. "
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Ideas
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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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