Mariel Hemingway Quotes

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

  Mariel Hemingway

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

  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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

Mariel Hemingway (36)

Birth:	22nd November, 1961
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress, Writer

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