Marian Hall Seldes (August 23, 1928 – October 6, 2014) 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. Read full biography of Marian Seldes →
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.... →
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.
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've been, for want of a better phrase, a supporting actress so much of my life.
I always think of myself as an 18-year-old beginning my career, all the time.
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.
If I had a religious belief, I would want it to be as strong as my belief in the theater.
Theatre is where I am confident and happy.
Marian Hall Seldes (August 23, 1928 – October 6, 2014) 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.