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" The audience has its own gestalt, and it becomes another character - a character that changes each night. "
Elizabeth Marvel
Audience
Changes
Night
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" I don't believe in saying no. "
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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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" 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 never had any preconceived ideas about acting, because I always thought I was going to be a visual artist. "
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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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Great
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" 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!' "
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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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" 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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Things
" Trying to find a way to represent something that is truly frightening on stage is a fascinating challenge. "
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Challenge
Find
" 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. "
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Film
Just
" 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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Feelings
Stage
" 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
Defense
Interesting
Me
" 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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Job
" 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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Someone
Money
Know
" I don't look presidential. I don't wear, you know, three-piece suits and have my hair perfectly coiffed. "
Elizabeth Marvel
Look
Know
Hair
" 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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Me
Artist
Darkness
" 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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Television
" I'm dying for people to let me be funny! "
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Funny
Me
People
" There are lots of rats. It's a dirty little secret at the Delacorte Theatre. "
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Rats
Theatre
Secret
" 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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Want
Me
Interesting
" 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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Me
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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
" As an actress, you have to be very naive. "
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You
Naive
" 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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" We are in this amazing age of television where there's an incredible amount and an incredible quality of television, of long-form narrative. "
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Television
Quality
" 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 have no ability or interest to play that weak, beaten person. "
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Ability
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Person
" My God, I have so much bounty in my life. "
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My Life
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" 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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