Marian Seldes Quotes & Sayings

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

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

“If you're unhappy in a relationship, I think you just don't trust yourself for getting into another one.”

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

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

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

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