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> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marian-seldes/the-kind-of-acting-i-love-is-when-you-watch-and-you-discover-what-you/)

[Marian Seldes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marian-seldes/)

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## More by Marian Seldes

> [I know I'm funny, because I'm eccentric, I'm odd. I'm not what you expect.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marian-seldes/i-know-i-m-funny-because-i-m-eccentric-i-m-odd-i-m-not-what-you-expect/)

[Marian Seldes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marian-seldes/)

> [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marian-seldes/how-do-people-who-live-utterly-alone-survive-there-are-so-many-things/)

[Marian Seldes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marian-seldes/)

> [I would hate to think of the theatre world without critics. Without them, we'd not have the record of each season.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marian-seldes/i-would-hate-to-think-of-the-theatre-world-without-critics-without/)

[Marian Seldes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marian-seldes/confidence-has-nothing-to-do-with-what-you-look-like-if-you-obsess/)

[Marian Seldes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marian-seldes/)

> [If you're unhappy in a relationship, I think you just don't trust yourself for getting into another one.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marian-seldes/if-you-re-unhappy-in-a-relationship-i-think-you-just-don-t-trust/)

[Marian Seldes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marian-seldes/)

> [I think of myself as only being an actress when I'm acting, but my friends will say I act all the time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marian-seldes/i-think-of-myself-as-only-being-an-actress-when-i-m-acting-but-my/)

[Marian Seldes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marian-seldes/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marian-seldes/own-the-room-confidence-has-nothing-to-do-with-what-you-look-like-if/)

[Marian Seldes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marian-seldes/)

> [My grandmother always used to say, "If you know your past and you know where you have to go, why do you rehearse?" I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marian-seldes/my-grandmother-always-used-to-say-if-you-know-your-past-and-you-know/)

[Marian Seldes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marian-seldes/)

> [I almost never go to the theatre without seeing someone I've taught or known at Juilliard.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marian-seldes/i-almost-never-go-to-the-theatre-without-seeing-someone-i-ve-taught/)

[Marian Seldes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marian-seldes/)

> [If I had a religious belief, I would want it to be as strong as my belief in the theater.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marian-seldes/if-i-had-a-religious-belief-i-would-want-it-to-be-as-strong-as-my/)

[Marian Seldes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marian-seldes/)

> [When I began to act, I was about 6 years old. Everything you learned, every period of history you studied, you did a play…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marian-seldes/when-i-began-to-act-i-was-about-6-years-old-everything-you-learned/)

[Marian Seldes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marian-seldes/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marian-seldes/i-think-the-first-time-i-was-ever-really-conscious-of-the-difference/)

[Marian Seldes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marian-seldes/)

> [People say, 'How can you stay in a play for a long time?' I say, 'The audience is never the same.'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marian-seldes/people-say-how-can-you-stay-in-a-play-for-a-long-time-i-say-the/)

[Marian Seldes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marian-seldes/)

> [An actress spends a lifetime observing people. You build up a mental library. No, not a library. Make that a repository.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marian-seldes/an-actress-spends-a-lifetime-observing-people-you-build-up-a-mental/)

[Marian Seldes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marian-seldes/)

> [In Milly Barranger, Margaret Webster has found the perfect biographer. In Margaret Webster, Milly Barranger has found her perfect subject. She brings to vivid…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marian-seldes/in-milly-barranger-margaret-webster-has-found-the-perfect-biographer/)

[Marian Seldes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marian-seldes/)

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