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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

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Mariel Hemingway
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: November 22
Actor
Actress
Film Actor
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Mill Valley
California
Mariel Hadley Hemingway
Wanted
Work
Silliness
Accepting
Realizing
Pain
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The prevalence of mental illness compels me to give it - and the people suffering from it - a voice.
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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.
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I don't take myself terribly seriously. It's why I can be incredibly honest about my life.
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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.
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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.
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