“I think the first time I was ever really conscious of the difference b...” — Marian Seldes Quote

“I think the first time I was ever really conscious of the difference between people's voices was that my mother's voice was so soft and gentle and her pronunciation was so perfect.”

“I know I'm funny, because I'm eccentric, I'm odd. I'm not what you expect.”

“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.”

“A girl child who is even a little bit educated is more conscious of family planning, health care and, in turn, her children's own education.”

“There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't.”

“My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote.”