Funny Eccentric Quotes by Marian Seldes

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

— 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,…

— Marian Seldes

I would hate to think of the theatre world without critics. Without them, we'd not have the record of each season.

— 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…

— Marian Seldes

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

— 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.

— 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…

— 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…

— Marian Seldes

I almost never go to the theatre without seeing someone I've taught or known at Juilliard.

— Marian Seldes

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

— 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…

— 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…

— Marian Seldes

People say, 'How can you stay in a play for a long time?' I say, 'The audience is never the same.'

— Marian Seldes

An actress spends a lifetime observing people. You build up a mental library. No, not a library. Make that a repository.

— 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…

— Marian Seldes