EPISODE 40: MARIA DIZZIA
MARIA DIZZIA
On navigating paralyzing anxiety under high pressure (AKA stage fright), the rewards of acceptance, and where ideas come from.
Maria Dizzia is an actress who you may recognize most recently from Orange Is The New Black, 13 Reasons Why, the HBO show, The Undoing, or ABC’s Emergence. You likely also recognize her from the films, Martha Marcy May Marlene, While We're Young and True Story. Maria also has an extensive list of theatre credits. She was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play for her performance in In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play). And Off Broadway, she was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Lead Actress, for her performance in "Belleville" at New York Theater Workshop. She’s also performed at the Barrow Street Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, The Roundabout, and with so many other Off-Broadway Theatre Companies. Most recently, she starred in the National Tour of What The Constitution Means To Me, by Heidi Shreck, which won both an Obie and a Drama Desk awards for Best Play.
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QUOTES FROM THIS EPISODE
29:54 ~ “No one does anything in the world by themselves.”
34:56 ~ “Those things aren't an impediment... those are really all the things that help you do the thing.”
38:02 ~ “I notice that if I let myself have whatever feeling I'm having, even if I feel that it's wrong or not helpful, that I always get rewarded. And by rewarded, I mean, when I have the moment of acceptance, I feel a wash of love and that I can do anything.”
40:58 ~ “Accepting something is not relinquishing your affect on it or your relationship to it... You're just giving something space so it... can move to the next thing. I think maybe all the other things that we think that we're doing to stop stuff are actually holding [the stuff] there for a lot longer.”
1:15:07 ~ “The whole thing is the play... all of the thoughts that you're having, everything is the play.”
1:25:21 ~ "Recognizing that you're an author... Is what allows you to then shift and not feel just constantly that the world is this thing that's coming at you."
1:45:56 ~ “What's actually happening is always much more interesting than your idea of what should happen.”
01:54:52 ~ “I feel that... allowing is almost like preparing for something that actually hasn't arrived yet and so that, in a way, us being able to allow in our art is a way for us to practice and rehearse a way to be in the world.”
02:05:14 ~ “Allow all the stuff that's there to be there. And then your contribution will come out of that.”