Quotes by Marian Seldes

About Marian Seldes:

Marian Hall Seldes was an American stage, film, radio and television actress whose career spanned seven decades. She was elected to the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1995.
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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.

Marian Seldes

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.

Marian Seldes

I'm fairly obedient. I do what I'm told.

Marian Seldes

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.

Marian Seldes

I would hate to think of the theatre world without critics. Without them, we'd not have the record of each season.

Marian Seldes

An actress spends a lifetime observing people. You build up a mental library. No, not a library. Make that a repository.

Marian Seldes

If I had a religious belief, I would want it to be as strong as my belief in the theater.

Marian Seldes

I almost never go to the theatre without seeing someone I've taught or known at Juilliard.

Marian Seldes

Theatre is where I am confident and happy.

Marian Seldes

There's no trick of teaching acting. Either someone wants to do it and is gifted, or not.

Marian Seldes

I have had a career in which, almost without exception, every single person I've worked with has helped me.

Marian Seldes

Acting takes so much energy.

Marian Seldes

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.

Marian Seldes

I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.

Marian Seldes

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.

Marian Seldes

I know I'm funny, because I'm eccentric, I'm odd. I'm not what you expect.

Marian Seldes

All I've done is live my life in the theater and loved it.

Marian Seldes

I've been, for want of a better phrase, a supporting actress so much of my life.

Marian Seldes

I think of myself as only being an actress when I'm acting, but my friends will say I act all the time.

Marian Seldes

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.

Marian Seldes

Author Bio

  • NameMarian Seldes
  • DescriptionAmerican actress
  • BornAugust 23, 1928
  • DiedOctober 6, 2014
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Music Educator