A biography for Elizabeth Marvelhasn’t been written yet.
“There are lots of rats. It's a dirty little secret at the Delacorte Theatre.”
“The first play I ever did was with Michael Langham, Brian Bedford, and Colm Feore, at Stratford Festival. That was my first professional job, and I got to work with Garland Wright and so many great artists.”
“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.”
“I don't look presidential. I don't wear, you know, three-piece suits and have my hair perfectly coiffed.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I get to play a lot of powerful, smartest women in the room. And that's deeply satisfying.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Whenever I approach any character, I try to find examples to draw upon.”
“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.”
“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!”
“If you can see it, you can be it. And I believe in that.”
“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.”
“We are in this amazing age of television where there's an incredible amount and an incredible quality of television, of long-form narrative.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Who wouldn't want to play the leader of the free world?”
“I have to say, it seems to be the older I get, the better the work gets. When has that been true?”