Quotes from Mariel Hemingway

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

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'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.

You can turn just about any simple act into a practice of mindfulness, and it will nurture and nourish you; it will start your day off in a positive way.

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 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.

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.

We live in a society that is afraid of ways of being it doesn't understand.

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.

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.

Living a simpler life has turned out to be one of the keys to being more awake and healthy.

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

How you live your life can affect your mental state.

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

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

Whatever it is that you do in your life, you're your own guide.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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