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
Theatre is where I am confident and happy.
I've been, for want of a better phrase, a supporting actress so much of my life.
I'm fairly obedient. I do what I'm told.
I think of myself as only being an actress when I'm acting, but my friends will say I act all the time.
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.
I have had a career in which, almost without exception, every single person I've worked with has helped me.
I always think of myself as an 18-year-old beginning my career, all the time.
I grew up in a house where language was appreciated and cared about. I'm sure that, although I wasn't aware of it at the time, it must have made an impression on me.
Unfortunately, there are mental invalids of every age who exist on other people's terms. It's lazy for older persons to let others make up their minds for them. People have to overcome that.
People say, 'How can you stay in a play for a long time?' I say, 'The audience is never the same.'
I would hate to think of the theatre world without critics. Without them, we'd not have the record of each season.
When I began to act, I was about 6 years old. Everything you learned, every period of history you studied, you did a play about it.