Mariel Hemingway Quotes
"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
(Related: Love, Thought, Acting, Being, Living, World)
"My problems aren't so different from anybody else."
- Mariel Hemingway
(Related: Problems)
"It's not that I don't believe in miracles, but I never quite trust that they're real."
- Mariel Hemingway
(Related: Trust, Miracles)
"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
(Related: Experience, History, Life, Act, Acting, Actors)
"Manhattan, though, was an entirely different ballgame in a whole different kind of world, with a man who was brilliant and at the same time terribly charismatic."
- Mariel Hemingway
(Related: Time, Man, World)
"I wanted to share the experience of how yoga and meditation have transformed my life, how they have enabled me to observe who I am, first in my body, and then emotionally, and on to a kind of spiritual path."
- Mariel Hemingway
(Related: Experience, Life, Body, First, Meditation, Spiritual, Yoga)
"I've known for years that you're supposed to be present. I know that thinking about what's happened or thinking about what I want is not going to get me anywhere, but until I quit doing it I'm not present."
- Mariel Hemingway
(Related: Present, Thinking, Want, Years)
"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
(Related: Peace, Job, Self, Sense, Training)
"Starting out in a beginner class and really understanding the fundamentals of yoga is really important."
- Mariel Hemingway
(Related: Class, Understanding, Yoga)
"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
(Related: People, Care)
"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
(Related: Body)
"What they were giving me seemed incredibly real to me, so I'd react to it in a very real way. That was frightening for me, especially because of the subject."
- Mariel Hemingway
(Related: Giving)
"Yoga teaches you how to listen to your body."
- Mariel Hemingway
(Related: Body, Yoga)
"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
(Related: Work, Pain)
"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
(Related: Experience, Meditation)
"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
(Related: Feelings, Anxiety, Want)
"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
(Related: Life, HusbCancer, Order)
"We're taught to take care of people we love, but sometimes you can't."
- Mariel Hemingway
(Related: Love, People, Care)
"I thought my book was done, then we went to Hawaii and the whole last chapter happened."
- Mariel Hemingway
(Related: Thought)
"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
(Related: Experience, People, Care, Feeling, Pretty)
"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
(Related: People, Alcohol, Drugs, Exercise, Habits, Living, Needs, Pain)
"Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important."
- Mariel Hemingway
(Related: Time, Life, Quiet)
"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
(Related: Food, Life, First, Meditation, Quiet, Yoga)
"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
(Related: End, Exercise, Yoga)
"I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction."
- Mariel Hemingway
(Related: Pain)
"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
(Related: Acting, Bizarre, Jobs)
"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
(Related: Music, Being, Exercise, Present, Yoga)
"I did Star 80, which was a magnificent experience as well, but still, I was at the height of my career at the beginning. Then I had to jump down the ladder and climb back up again, which I didn't understand. That was very hard."
- Mariel Hemingway
(Related: Experience, Beginning, Career)
"I think that growth and spiritual awareness come in slow increments. Sometimes you don't know it's happening."
- Mariel Hemingway
(Related: Growth, Awareness, Spiritual)
"I got back into the position of taking care of my husband, which is what I'd learned that I couldn't really do: you can love and make things okay to a certain extent, but you can't fix. I didn't quite learn that until the kayaking incident. It became so clear then."
- Mariel Hemingway
(Related: Love, HusbCare)
"I felt I had to share Idaho with my friend from New York because he'd shared New York with me, so I was going to share the beauty of nature with a man who went to museums and clubs late at night. But there was nothing to do where I lived at night."
- Mariel Hemingway
(Related: Beauty, Nature, Friend, Man, Museums, Night, Nothing)
"I enjoyed doing Lipstick, but it scared me. I was very nervous. I couldn't wait for it to be over. It was very real, and I was just a kid."
- Mariel Hemingway
"I don't take myself terribly seriously. It's why I can be incredibly honest about my life."
- Mariel Hemingway
(Related: Life)
"I don't have to go to church. The church is within me and the experience is my own. It's my life experience."
- Mariel Hemingway
(Related: Experience, Life, Church)
"I think we should be passionately curious about what we do."
- Mariel Hemingway