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" Who wouldn't want to play the leader of the free world? "

Elizabeth Marvel

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

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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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" 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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" I've been around the block. "

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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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" There are lots of rats. It's a dirty little secret at the Delacorte Theatre. "

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

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. "

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

Elizabeth Marvel

" 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

" 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'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

" 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

" I'm a hypervisual person. "

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

Elizabeth Marvel

" I will happily work anywhere they need me to if they pay me well. "

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. "

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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. "

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

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

" If someone can make money from you, you can do more things, and eventually, you can do things you come up with. "

Elizabeth Marvel

" 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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" I don't believe in saying no. "

Elizabeth Marvel

" 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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