Mariel Hemingway Quotes

A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

Making music is an inward and outward gesture at once. I make it because I'm communing with a side of myself that might help me look people in the eye. But at the same time, I'm reaching out, in a way.

As human beings we have this immediate gateway - you’ve just to articulate exactly the way that you’re exiled, exactly the way that you don’t belong, exactly the way that you can’t love, exactly the way that you can’t move ... and you’re on your way again. You’re on your way home. If you can just say exactly the way that you’re imprisoned - the door swings open.

Even if you tried to extinguish your personality, what is left in the story will reflect it, perhaps by its negation. Our lives provide the bricks from which we build these cathedrals.

I needed to talk about my real personal history, in order to become free of it.

Even for a girl like me, then, there comes a day when she can stop surviving and start living. To survive, you have to look good or talk good. But to end your story well-- here is the truth-- you have to talk yourself out of it.

The nearest anyone can come to finding himself at any given age is to find a story that somehow tells him about himself.

I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine.

In my new book, 'Binge,' I share essays about everything I've never told my viewers - touching on the best and worst days of my life, some hilarious, some embarrassing, but all extremely personal.

I don't see it as a form of healing, because if you have wounds that are bleeding I don't think acting will ever get them to stop. But I find acting is a form of illumination.

It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.

Once you go inside and weed through the muck, you will find the real beauty, the truth about yourself.

My act has always reflected what's going on in my life.

I wanted to tell my story in a way I haven't done before, things I've been going through in my life.

I think a novel has to be about where you are at a given moment in time. I think it really needs to represent some specific pain you're going through. it's not just a story.

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected upon it.

I do want to work on writing, because writing's a skill. Writing is something that you can train yourself to know better. To know yourself better. And it's intimidating as hell.

It's how I express myself - through storytelling and characters. They often reveal very intimate, vulnerable sides of myself.

I knew I had a lot to say. Not politically - politics have always confused me - but perhaps spiritually.

Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about.

After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.

In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.

I love sharing my story. It's endlessly healing.

You can't intellectually purge yourself of who you are. Whatever that is, it's going to come out in the wash, the film wash. What you are is going to be relevant, if not to yourself, to the movies you make.

I love diving into different skins, skins that make me feel deep emotions.