Mariel Hemingway Quotes

You need to suffer to be interesting.

If a man becomes more mature due to certain episodes in his life, it gives him the opportunity to look at life in a much more deep way. I believe the artist and the man work parallel, with the same feelings, the same soul, the same sensitivity.

I used to have a lot of philosophies of acting; they all fell apart over the years.

When you've had a chance to live some experiences then you can really write, and not having lived that much when I was young I didn't have much to write about. Now having seen life, the songs seem to come easier.

As an actor, you need to grow and experience things. What you experience in life is what is going to help you and your art.

I would love nothing more to participate in a real struggle to find a character, and really delve into and develop a character. That's why I'm an actor.

Most of actor's work is done at home, in your hotel room, in the wee hours of the morning thinking and reading and feeling, walking around and listening to music. It really just because an internal exercise, whatever skills. It's great if you have to learn something new for a gig and designing a character physically is always fun but it does become an internal exercise in separating the wheat from the chaff.

As an actor, I think every moment in your life is giving you a new set of tools. You’re constantly absorbing new information that you can put back onto the screen.

I have been taking every step toward the future every day through making many paintings and sculptures with my deep emotion hidden in my life.

I don't know if it's that the scripts are evolving or just that I'm getting older, but the characters become more interesting as you get older because you've lived more life at different stages. You've loved; you've lost; you have more of that journey.

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better.

I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.

I always imagined that magically, at some point, I would settle into this very easy and refined sophistication, but it turns out that who you are at eleven is pretty much who you are at 27, so I don't know how much I've learned over the years.

I can't do a role or character unless I have lived that character. For me, the best teacher is life.

Acting, believe it or not, can get very self-involved! I feel fortunate to have been able to work on things with people who have a very specific point of view and perspective, and who feel like they're doing something very active.

I think I've lived a pretty hard life. What I mean by hard is that... I've been kind of reckless with things. I'm a passionate person. I'm a super passionate person. I think there's definitely been sorrow in my life, good and bad. I think it comes through. I hope it comes through in my writing because to me that's what artistry is.

I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.

I learn something new everyday about myself as an actor, my capabilities, how far I can stretch myself, throw out emotions I never knew I had.

I can't play anything until I find something that connects to my life, something I can carry as my secret map or code for the character.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

No, I feel like my personality probably influenced the character, more than the character influenced me.

I'd never want to go back to being in my twenties or thirties. I was lost and confused and uncomfortable in my own skin.

I think that you get something for your acting from almost anything you do.

I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.