Quotes by Mariel Hemingway

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.

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.

Maybe in any art you have to be wholly you in the context of whatever you’re doing.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

Everyone needs to take control of his or her own life by making sense of it. It doesn’t matter how conventional or unconventional that process is.