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Marian Seldes
American
Actress
Born:
Aug 23
,
1928
Died:
Oct 6
,
2014
Acting
Every
People
Think
Time
You
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I've never been obsessed by how I looked. In fact, I would rather have looked more ordinary so I could play more parts more truthfully.
Marian Seldes
Would
Rather
More
Fact
Could
Never
Obsessed
Looked
Parts
How
Been
Truthfully
In Fact
Ordinary
Play
An actress spends a lifetime observing people. You build up a mental library. No, not a library. Make that a repository.
Marian Seldes
You
Library
People
Build
Mental
Lifetime
Observing
Make
Up
Repository
Actress
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.
Marian Seldes
Age
People
Overcome
Older
Every
Other
Others
Minds
Mental
Lazy
Terms
Make
Make Up
Exist
Up
Unfortunately
Them
Persons
Who
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
Time
Myself
Will
Think
Say
Only
Friends
Being
Act
Acting
Actress
I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.
Marian Seldes
Great
Try
Humor
Think
Enormous
Everything
Find
Because
Tragedies
Them
Even
Plays
I know I'm funny, because I'm eccentric, I'm odd. I'm not what you expect.
Marian Seldes
Funny
You
Eccentric
Know
Because
Odd
Expect
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.
Marian Seldes
Love
You
Love Is
Think
Kind
See
Supposed
Perhaps
Armor
Were
Discover
Acting
Watch
I almost never go to the theatre without seeing someone I've taught or known at Juilliard.
Marian Seldes
Theatre
Seeing
Someone
Never
Almost
Known
Without
Go
Juilliard
Taught
Theatre is where I am confident and happy.
Marian Seldes
Happy
Theatre
Am
Confident
Where
There's no trick of teaching acting. Either someone wants to do it and is gifted, or not.
Marian Seldes
Gifted
Trick
Someone
Wants
Either
Acting
Teaching
I've been, for want of a better phrase, a supporting actress so much of my life.
Marian Seldes
Life
Better
My Life
Phrase
Supporting
Been
Want
Much
Actress
I have had a career in which, almost without exception, every single person I've worked with has helped me.
Marian Seldes
Me
Single
Every
Exception
Had
Almost
Without
Single Person
Person
Which
Worked
Helped
Career
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