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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

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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
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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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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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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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I think that growth and spiritual awareness come in slow increments. Sometimes you don't know it's happening.
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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.
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How you live your life can affect your mental state.
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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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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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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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The prevalence of mental illness compels me to give it - and the people suffering from it - a voice.
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I don't have to go to church. The church is within me and the experience is my own. It's my life experience.
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