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Marian Seldes [1928-2014] American

Rank: 105
Actress, Film actress

Marian Hall Seldes was an American stage, film, radio and television actress whose career spanned over 60 years. A five-time Tony Award nominee, she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for A Delicate Balance in 1967, and received subsequent nominations for Father's Day, Deathtrap, Ring Round the Moon and Dinner at Eight.

Funny, Humor, Relationship, Trust

Quote	Tags	Rank
I know I'm funny, because I'm eccentric, I'm odd. I'm not what you expect.	Funny	101
Confidence has nothing to do with what you look like. If you obsess over that, you'll end up being disappointed in yourself all the time. Instead, high self-esteem comes from how you feel in any moment. So walk into a room acting like you're in charge, and spend your energy on making the people around you happy.		102
If you're unhappy in a relationship, I think you just don't trust yourself for getting into another one.	Relationship, Trust	103
All I've done is live my life in the theater and loved it.		104
I'm fairly obedient. I do what I'm told.		105
I think of myself as only being an actress when I'm acting, but my friends will say I act all the time.		106
I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.	Humor	107
I grew up in a house where language was appreciated and cared about. I'm sure that, although I wasn't aware of it at the time, it must have made an impression on me.		108
If I had a religious belief, I would want it to be as strong as my belief in the theater.		109
The kind of acting I love is when you watch and you discover what you think perhaps you weren't supposed to see: the chink in the armor.		110
Theatre is where I am confident and happy.		111
There's no trick of teaching acting. Either someone wants to do it and is gifted, or not.		112
I've been, for want of a better phrase, a supporting actress so much of my life.		113
I have had a career in which, almost without exception, every single person I've worked with has helped me.		114
I always think of myself as an 18-year-old beginning my career, all the time.		115
Unfortunately, there are mental invalids of every age who exist on other people's terms. It's lazy for older persons to let others make up their minds for them. People have to overcome that.		116
I've never been obsessed by how I looked. In fact, I would rather have looked more ordinary so I could play more parts more truthfully.		117
I would hate to think of the theatre world without critics. Without them, we'd not have the record of each season.		118
An actress spends a lifetime observing people. You build up a mental library. No, not a library. Make that a repository.		119
I think the first time I was ever really conscious of the difference between people's voices was that my mother's voice was so soft and gentle and her pronunciation was so perfect.		120
When I began to act, I was about 6 years old. Everything you learned, every period of history you studied, you did a play about it.		121
How do people who live utterly alone survive? There are so many things that won't open. I've got a few dresses in New York, and I can somehow get them on, but I can't get them off.		122
People say, 'How can you stay in a play for a long time?' I say, 'The audience is never the same.'		123
I love being with someone, taking care of someone.		124
I almost never go to the theatre without seeing someone I've taught or known at Juilliard.		125
I'm not a good tourist. I don't like walking around and looking at things. I like being in a city and working and finding out how other people live.		126
Acting takes so much energy.		201

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