Elizabeth Marvel Quotes

I was trained as a dramatic actor. I'm really excited to do some more dramatic stuff.

In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that.

I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it.

I have a background in theater. At the time I read 'The Loved Ones' script, I was playing Catherine the Great of Russia onstage. Straight after that, I played Stella in 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and Isabella in 'Measure for Measure.'

I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

I would love to play a fun character. Like, I would love to be in 'A Long Day's Journey Into Night.' I love that play. I'd play Edmond or Jamie. I don't care which.

I would love to play Mary in 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' or 'Virginia Woolf' or a comedy - just, like, a slapstick comedy.

I studied Shakespeare at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City, and 'Orange' was my first audition ever for TV or film.

Even more than the comedy thing, I really wanted to be an actor.

For me, the ideal job as an actor would be something that is intrinsically a drama but to which I could bring in as much humor as possible.

Acting is the way I make my living.

When I was 15, I was asked to do 'Cyrano de Bergerac' at school, and it fundamentally changed my life. It's obviously an extraordinarily diverse and potentially electrifying part. It's a big leading part, and I hadn't really played anything like that before; I was the one doing the comedy side bit.

It was a wonderful experience to live the life for a year; to spend all day doing Shakespeare and then do a play in the evening.

I'm into parlor dramas. I'm into theatre. I'm trained for the stage. I trained to do Chekhov and Shakespeare, I was trained for the stage.

I can always do theater; I can do Ibsen, I can do Macbeth, I can do Chekhov, I can do Moliere, Othello, I can do Richard III.

Acting is my job.

I am really not of the school of naturalism. I like style, and you can use more style in theater than in film roles. I love to sink my teeth into a part.

I did a lot of serious plays, and I did the Oxford Review as well, which is supposed to be funny, but I'm not sure how funny we were when we did it. Then, when I finished my course, it was only then that I decided to go to drama school and try and do acting because I was enjoying it so much and so on.

I fell in love with acting. I thought, 'This is what I want to do.'

I haven't played Hedda Gabler yet, but maybe if I did I might find the funny bits.

I came out of repertory theater, where I worked 50 weeks a year, and I loved working with the people.

I know at some point I would like to take on more dramatic roles.

Acting is something I love to do. I love to perform and I love the art, the craft of it.

I was a coat-checker at Orso, and all these wonderful actors were coming in, and it was exciting to me, so I started going to classes, and my excuse was, 'I'll be a better songwriter if I can understand how to play a character.' Well, that couldn't be farther from the truth.

I want to do drama, light comedy, the whole range.