American - Actress | August 23, 1928 - October 6, 2014
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
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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.
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An actress spends a lifetime observing people. You build up a mental library. No, not a library. Make that a repository.
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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.
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I know I'm funny, because I'm eccentric, I'm odd. I'm not what you expect.
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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.
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I love being with someone, taking care of someone.
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I'm fairly obedient. I do what I'm told.
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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.
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I always think of myself as an 18-year-old beginning my career, all the time.
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All I've done is live my life in the theater and loved it.
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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.
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