Mariel Hemingway quotes

Mariel Hemingway is an American actress known for her roles in films such as "Manhattan" and "Lipstick." Coming from a famous family of writers and performers, she has also become recognized for her advocacy on mental health issues. She continues to act and inspire audiences with her openness and resilience. Here are 38 of her quotes:

Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important. (Mariel Hemingway)

I thought my book was done, then we went to Hawaii and the whole last chapter happened.

Mariel Hemingway

Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job. It's no one else's.

Mariel Hemingway

The other thing is surrounding yourself with people that care for you. These are simple things, but they're powerful, and they've completely transformed who I am and how I perceive myself.

Mariel Hemingway

It's not that I don't believe in miracles, but I never quite trust that they're real.

Mariel Hemingway

A lot of exercise is mindless; you can have music or the radio on and not be aware. But if you're aware in anything you do - and it doesn't have to be yoga - it changes you. Being present changes you.

Mariel Hemingway

I think that growth and spiritual awareness come in slow increments. Sometimes you don't know it's happening.

Mariel Hemingway

Everybody needs a way out of that pain. Many people choose drugs and alcohol. Some people obsessively exercise or develop strange dietary habits, which is what I did. At least it got me toward a path of healthier living.

Mariel Hemingway

I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction.

Mariel Hemingway

I wanted out of my pain and that silliness, but I wanted an easy out. That's before realizing that there is no easy out. Before accepting that you just have to do the work.

Mariel Hemingway

For me, first, it's finding quiet in my life - and I do that through yoga and meditation. It's also been a matter of changing the way I eat, because I think what we eat can inform who we are; food is a chemical and a drug to a certain extent. (Mariel Hemingway)

My problems aren't so different from anybody else.

Mariel Hemingway

Yoga teaches you how to listen to your body.

Mariel Hemingway

The experience of getting my Kriya, which is the meditation process that I do, was very powerful for me - though, as I explain in the book, I was really suspect of that kind of thing.

Mariel Hemingway

What I wasn't prepared for were the feelings of anxiety that it stirred in me. I wasn't prepared for the initial feeling of I don't want to have to do that again. I was scared.

Mariel Hemingway

I think we should be passionately curious about what we do.

Mariel Hemingway

Starting out in a beginner class and really understanding the fundamentals of yoga is really important.

Mariel Hemingway

When child actors act well they're just reacting to situations, and they're acting very real because their life experience is so short; there's no history to fall back on.

Mariel Hemingway

I loved acting when I was doing it, but getting the jobs I didn't understand because I'd never had to do it. That was a difficult lesson for me. It was very humbling and very bizarre.

Mariel Hemingway

Well, I was passionately curious about what my body was doing, and when I got the lessons on how to meditate, it seemed really solid to me. It seemed real.

Mariel Hemingway

But the experience that I had, which was basically just feeling loved and taken care of in a room full of thousands of people I didn't know, seemed to be a pretty strong sign that what I was doing was a good thing. (Mariel Hemingway)

Cancer came back into my life twice in order for me to understand something, and I guess I still wasn't getting it. And my husband wasn't getting it, either.

Mariel Hemingway

I began by doing physical yoga, initially just for the workout, as exercise. I would get peaceful and calm at the end of it, and I was curious about that.

Mariel Hemingway

I was taken by the romanticism of being thought of as an adult and living in a world that was completely new to me. I fell in love with acting then.

Mariel Hemingway

I'm not that old, and I haven't lived a life so far from the ordinary, really.

Mariel Hemingway

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Mariel Hemingway

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Occupation: American Actress
Born: November 22, 1961
Quotes count: 38

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