Marian Seldes
Marian Seldes
Marian Hall Seldeswas 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 Moonand Dinner at Eight. She also won a Drama Desk Award for Father's Day. Her other Broadway credits included Equus, Ivanovand Deuce. She was inducted into the American Theatre...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth23 August 1928
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
I always think of myself as an 18-year-old beginning my career, all the time.
I have had a career in which, almost without exception, every single person I've worked with has helped me.
All I've done is live my life in the theater and loved it.
I know I'm funny, because I'm eccentric, I'm odd. I'm not what you expect.
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.
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 try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.
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If I had a religious belief, I would want it to be as strong as my belief in the theater.
An actress spends a lifetime observing people. You build up a mental library. No, not a library. Make that a repository.
I have had a career in which, almost without exception, every single person Ive worked with has helped me.
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.
There's no trick of teaching acting. Either someone wants to do it and is gifted, or not.
If you're unhappy in a relationship, I think you just don't trust yourself for getting into another one.