Words matter. These are the best Marian Seldes Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
I have had a career in which, almost without exception, every single person I’ve worked with has helped me.
If you’re unhappy in a relationship, I think you just don’t trust yourself for getting into another one.
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.
I almost never go to the theatre without seeing someone I’ve taught or known at Juilliard.
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.
I know I’m funny, because I’m eccentric, I’m odd. I’m not what you expect.
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.
I think of myself as only being an actress when I’m acting, but my friends will say I act all the time.
I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays – even great tragedies – have enormous humor in them.
Theatre is where I am confident and happy.
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.
All I’ve done is live my life in the theater and loved it.
I would hate to think of the theatre world without critics. Without them, we’d not have the record of each season.
I’m fairly obedient. I do what I’m told.
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.
There’s no trick of teaching acting. Either someone wants to do it and is gifted, or not.
I’ve been, for want of a better phrase, a supporting actress so much of my life.
