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 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. Giving confidence to others will come back to you and you'll end up feeling better about yourself.
Marian SeldesI have had a career in which, almost without exception, every single person Ive worked with has helped me.
Marian SeldesThe 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 SeldesI try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.
Marian SeldesIf you're unhappy in a relationship, I think you just don't trust yourself for getting into another one.
Marian SeldesIn Milly Barranger, Margaret Webster has found the perfect biographer. In Margaret Webster, Milly Barranger has found her perfect subject. She brings to vivid life a fascinating and important theater figure whose public and private lives were of equal interest. In this carefully researched book, Webster's colleagues, lovers, and friends shine as brightly as she did. I wish she were here to read it.
Marian Seldes