Mariel Hemingway Quotes - Page 3

I don't take myself terribly seriously. It's why I can be incredibly honest about my life.

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.

The prevalence of mental illness compels me to give it - and the people suffering from it - a voice.

Even with mental health as well as physical health, it's about taking responsibility and knowing that you're part of the solution always.

I really felt that I had to stay level, I had to control, I had to know what I was eating, I had to know what I was doing, I had to work out. All that stuff is very powerful and it really helps, but now I don't do it out of survival. At first, I was just trying to survive. I assumed at some point I'd be screwed otherwise.

Once you take care of yourself, you become the example, and then everybody around you can change.

Mental health and mental balance is critical to leading a healthy 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.

I think it’s the misperception of addiction and living life on the edge, as if it’s cool.

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.

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.

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.

We're taught to take care of people we love, but sometimes you can't.

I think talent, especially in acting, is being wholly yourself within the context of yourself.

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

My problems aren't so different from anybody else.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.