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

Mariel Hemingway

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Mariel Hemingway
Age: 62
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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Suffering
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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.
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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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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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A lot of exercise is mindless you can have music or the radio on and not be aware. But if you're aware in anything you do - and it doesn't have to be yoga - it changes you. Being present changes you.
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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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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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People can sense you lying on the camera, they can smell it. They know when you're not telling the truth. Then it does become reality-show bullshit.
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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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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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Having been through a tremendous amount of emotional pain, to process it properly, to be able to have it make sense and then move it through your body, your mind, your spirit, and be done with it, you really have to address it head-on. Being able to really have the courage enough to truly face it, to truly look at it, to truly feel it.
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I really believe that we all have the ability to come out of our story. But you have to tell your story first in order to come out of it.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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