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" 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

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

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" I'm a hypervisual person. "

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

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" 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.' "

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" I've been around the block. "

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

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

Elizabeth Marvel

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

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

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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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" 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

" 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. "

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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. "

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

" 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

" 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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" 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

" 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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" 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. "

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