A biography for Elizabeth Marvelhasn’t been written yet.
“I think every actor has those performances they've seen, the person who made them realize that's what they wanted to do.”
“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.”
“I was a spooky kid; that was just my nature.”
“I'm a hypervisual person.”
“The audience has its own gestalt, and it becomes another character - a character that changes each night.”
“I was in several Shakespeare in the Park productions in my younger years, but I've been busy with other things for a while.”
“I think there is a certain gravitas about me. My energy can be very big and yet contained.”
“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.”
“I've been around the block.”
“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.'”
“Trying to find a way to represent something that is truly frightening on stage is a fascinating challenge.”
“I don't believe in saying no.”
“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.”
“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 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.”
“I'm not familiar with an unaccepting family. But in my profession, nothing can be foreign.”
“As an actress, you have to be very naive.”
“My God, I have so much bounty in my life.”
“I just love the idea of doing an all-female play on Broadway.”