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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. "

Elizabeth Marvel

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" I'm a hypervisual person. "

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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. "

Elizabeth Marvel

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

Elizabeth Marvel

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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

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

Elizabeth Marvel

" 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? "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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

" 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

" 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

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

Elizabeth Marvel

" I think there is a certain gravitas about me. My energy can be very big and yet contained. "

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

" 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

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

Elizabeth Marvel

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

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. "

Elizabeth Marvel

" If I'm asking people to give me two hours of their time, it's because I really feel like they need to listen to what the writer is talking about. "

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

" 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.' "

Elizabeth Marvel

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

Elizabeth Marvel

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

Elizabeth Marvel