Marian Seldes Quotes

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

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• I'm pretty gross. When I talk I can be gross and crude.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Pretty
  • Talk
  • I Can

• Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Age
  • Now
  • Jazz

• I want to be the best version of myself - intellectually, emotionally, and physically. So I like to wear clothes that I feel comfortable in, that reflect that.

  

  Gabrielle Anwar
  • Myself
  • Best
  • Clothes

• Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Money
  • Power
  • Aphrodisiac

• Everyone talks about the big three-oh with dread - but it's exciting. It feels like life is much more put together. Everyone's like, 'Wouldn't you like to be 20 again?' But no way.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • Life
  • Together
  • Everyone

• Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Good
  • Personality
  • Tests

• Do I believe in coupling? Do I believe in commitment? Do I believe in co-parenting, raising children together, having a family, and growing old with someone? I absolutely believe in all of those things. I just don't believe that you need to be married to do that. I love going to weddings, though. I do love a good wedding.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Children

• When I was asked to come over to the States, I thought to myself, 'What the Americans are very good at doing is creating stories with strong movement and plots that carry the movie as it goes along.'

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Strong

• My grandfather was an amazing man. You talk about character and integrity, everyone who knew him, whether they agreed with him or not, said, 'George Romney is a good man, and he sticks to his principles: a man of honesty and hard work, integrity.'

  

  Tagg Romney
  • Good
  • Work
  • Character

• My big downfall is deep-dish pizza from Chicago. That is why I can't go vegan - I can't give up cheese. I can't give up dairy.

  

  Parvesh Cheena
  • Up
  • Why
  • Deep

• Afraid no, I wasn't afraid but it was an unusual thing, it was an unusual feeling. It was an unusual atmosphere for me having grown up in this country and, and, and never seeing anything like that.

  

  Ralph Boston
  • Country
  • Feeling
  • Afraid

• Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Important
  • You
  • Film

• I've always been acutely aware of differences and the way you are supposed to act if you want to be popular.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Want
  • Popular
  • Differences

• I think to try to understand human behavior and why people do what they do, and what in their lives have shaped them and impacted them to be who they are, it's something. I mean, that's my entire life.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.

  

  Karl A. Menninger
  • Wish
  • Need
  • Envy

• I did not capture power. I was made to assume power.

  

  Ziaur Rahman
  • Power

• If I become so convinced that ‘I’m always right,’ the logical conclusion of that often ends up being great cruelty and great violence.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Great
  • Violence

• I have always accepted and respected all other schools of architecture, from the chill and elemental structures of Mies van der Rohe to the imagination and delirium of Gaudi. I must design what pleases me in a way that is naturally linked to my roots and the country of my origin.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Country
  • Imagination
  • Design

• I was a young actor who was bald, but at that time, there was a thing on television that - there was a prototype or a stereotype of a principal who was bald and mean with glasses, or there was... the angry boss who was bald.

  

  Jeffrey Tambor
  • Time
  • Angry
  • Boss

• My day is spent hiding from people.

  

  Jerry Della Femina
  • People

• Morning drew on apace. The air became more sharp and piercing, as its first dull hue: the death of night, rather than the birth of day: glimmered faintly in the sky. The objects which had looked dim and terrible in the darkness, grew more and more defined, and gradually resolved into their familiar shapes. The rain came down, thick and fast; and pattered, noisily, among the leafless bushes.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Death
  • Morning
  • Rain

• The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation.

  

  Takeshi Kitano
  • Work
  • Forever
  • Thing

• There's something about that idea of looking up and hoping, and thinking, 'I'm good.' Some things, like show business, are absolutely subjective. People look at a TV show and think, 'I could do that.' And maybe they could do that. But they're not.

  

  Christopher Guest
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• 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