Marian Seldes Quotes
People say, 'How can you stay in a play for a long time?' I say, 'The audience is never the same.'
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I love films that show people in a way that's so real it's almost unsettling, and that's what really inspires me because I write about people. I write about people that I know, so I want to portray them and portray myself in a way that is unapologetic.
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I think it's a mistake to try to pin down one particular reason for a person's personality. Don't we all, for many reasons, act differently in different circumstances and with different people?
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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
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The moment you sense someone is making something because they think people are gonna buy it or like it, it's just so phony! The public has a nose for phony like nobody else.
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My motivation is my desire to help people. If people want to have children and cannot in the normal way, and I can do something about it, then I will do so.
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The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic.
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The way I'm portrayed on the Internet is partly my doing, but it's partly the people that are presenting it so, you know, people come to know this strange version of a human. It can be pretty weird because people think I'm digging through dumpsters and smell like crap all the time.
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We want to be on the edge of technology all of the time. We think long-term.
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I would not run for president. I really like what I'm doing now. People say I'm giving them energy and hope.
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People are clamoring to hear good ideas as opposed to the lesser of two evils... Either the Democrats are going to win or the Republicans are going to win, but the losers are all of us out here as citizens that really do want meaningful change, and none of it's happening. There's no dialogue regarding meaningful change.
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I would love to win the Champions League once again. Winning big trophies like the Champions League or the World Cup is usually making people think, 'The players are not hungry any more.' Still, that's not what I feel.
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Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways.
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People don't blame the act of driving for auto accidents.
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You know, the polls show that 70 percent of the people are for stem-cell research.
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I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.
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I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had.
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As an old-time New Yorker, it's not that I miss the '70s and '80s or whatever. I miss the fact that there was a certain kind of energy that exists when people can live for nothing.
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But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time.
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I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.'
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I was impressionable at that age, and my high school coach did such an unbelievable job helping me, so I want to do that for other kids.
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I have never won big fights just doing one thing, being one-dimensional.
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The first time I played a killer, in the 1997 film 'Mojo,' I went to my local video shop and got out a video of real executions and a history of the Third Reich. The guy in the shop was giving me a look. I thought this would help, but I don't think it made any difference, and I don't want to see any more executions.
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People say, 'How can you stay in a play for a long time?' I say, 'The audience is never the same.'
