Words matter. These are the best Elizabeth Marvel Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’ve been around the block.
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.
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.
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.
I don’t look presidential. I don’t wear, you know, three-piece suits and have my hair perfectly coiffed.
I never had any preconceived ideas about acting, because I always thought I was going to be a visual artist.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I will happily work anywhere they need me to if they pay me well.
I think there is a certain gravitas about me. My energy can be very big and yet contained.
There are lots of rats. It’s a dirty little secret at the Delacorte Theatre.
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!
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!’
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.
The audience has its own gestalt, and it becomes another character – a character that changes each night.
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.
I’m a hypervisual person.
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.’
If you can see it, you can be it. And I believe in that.
I just love the idea of doing an all-female play on Broadway.
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.’
I’m not familiar with an unaccepting family. But in my profession, nothing can be foreign.
I think every actor has those performances they’ve seen, the person who made them realize that’s what they wanted to do.
I was in several Shakespeare in the Park productions in my younger years, but I’ve been busy with other things for a while.
My God, I have so much bounty in my life.
Trying to find a way to represent something that is truly frightening on stage is a fascinating challenge.
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.
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.
