Marian Seldes famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Own the room. 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. Giving confidence to others will come back to you and you'll end up feeling better about yourself.
-- Marian Seldes

#Inspirational #Self Esteem #Feel Better
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.
-- Marian Seldes

#Love Is #Thinking #Acting
If I had a religious belief, I would want it to be as strong as my belief in the theater.
-- Marian Seldes

#Religious #Strong #Want
An actress spends a lifetime observing people. You build up a mental library. No, not a library. Make that a repository.
-- Marian Seldes

#People #Library #Actresses
I have had a career in which, almost without exception, every single person Ive worked with has helped me.
-- Marian Seldes

#Careers #Exception #Single Person
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

#Thinking #Play #Trying
There's no trick of teaching acting. Either someone wants to do it and is gifted, or not.
-- Marian Seldes

#Teaching #Acting #Want
If you're unhappy in a relationship, I think you just don't trust yourself for getting into another one.
-- Marian Seldes

#Thinking #Unhappy #Trust Yourself
My grandmother always used to say, "If you know your past and you know where you have to go, why do you rehearse?" I always remember this and it's true. You have to start each day again-you can't repeat what you did.
-- Marian Seldes

#Grandmother #Past #Each Day
In Milly Barranger, Margaret Webster has found the perfect biographer. In Margaret Webster, Milly Barranger has found her perfect subject. She brings to vivid life a fascinating and important theater figure whose public and private lives were of equal interest. In this carefully researched book, Webster's colleagues, lovers, and friends shine as brightly as she did. I wish she were here to read it.
-- Marian Seldes

#Book #Perfect #Shining

You may also like:

Aaron Staton
Actor
Alex D. Linz
Actor
Brian Blessed
Actor
Christine Ebersole
Actress
Edward Albee
Playwright
Garson Kanin
Writer
George Seldes
Journalist
Jan de Bont
Film cinematographer
Josh Peck
Actor
Kevin Kline
Film actor
Lili Taylor
Actress
Macaulay Culkin
Actor
Mae Whitman
Actress
Ruth Gordon
Actress
Scarlett Johansson
Actress
Terrence McNally
Playwright
Tony Goldwyn
Actor
Vanessa Redgrave
Actress
William Sadler
Film actor
Hiam Abbass
Film actress