Marian Seldes People Quotations

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.

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.'

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

I'm not a good tourist. I don't like walking around and looking at things. I like being in a city and working and finding out how other people live.

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, and I can somehow get them on, but I can't get them off.