Top 50 Mariel Hemingway Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Mental health and mental balance is critical to leading a healthy life.”

— Mariel Hemingway

2. “Yoga teaches you how to listen to your body.”

— Mariel Hemingway

3. “The answers we’re looking for are all within ourselves, we just need to become better connected, more present – to what we eat, to nature, to our surroundings and to our inner guide.”

— Mariel Hemingway

4. “It’s not that I don’t believe in miracles, but I never quite trust that they’re real.”

— Mariel Hemingway

5. “I think we should be passionately curious about what we do.”

— Mariel Hemingway

6. “Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important.”

— Mariel Hemingway

7. “You have to have a little faith in people.”

— Mariel Hemingway

8. “Sometimes you can’t see your way out. The “dark night of the soul” – it’s a reality for many, many people.”

— Mariel Hemingway

9. “A family is a cracked mirror that nevertheless reflects us accurately.”

— Mariel Hemingway

10. “If you don’t step across the threshold of what you already know into the world of challenges, you never truly measure yourself.”

— Mariel Hemingway

11. “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.”

— Mariel Hemingway

12. “I’ve suffered from pretty dark depressing times, and it’s probably – not probably – it is the reason why I chose to lead a healthy lifestyle.”

— Mariel Hemingway

13. “Those that have lost their lives to suicide were good people, who were in deep, deep pain. Keep speaking about mental illness and keep it out of the darkness.”

— Mariel Hemingway

14. “There’s no doctor in a white coat that’s going to save you, or a system or a pill – it’s always going to be you and the choices that you make.”

— Mariel Hemingway

15. “The other thing is surrounding yourself with people that care for you. These are simple things, but they’re powerful, and they’ve completely transformed who I am and how I perceive myself.”

— Mariel Hemingway

16. “I don’t have to go to church. The church is within me and the experience is my own. It’s my life experience.”

— Mariel Hemingway

17. “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.”

— Mariel Hemingway

18. “What I wasn’t prepared for were the feelings of anxiety that it stirred in me. I wasn’t prepared for the initial feeling of I don’t want to have to do that again. I was scared.”

— Mariel Hemingway

19. “Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that’s my job. It’s no one else’s.”

— Mariel Hemingway

20. “I enjoyed doing Lipstick, but it scared me. I was very nervous. I couldn’t wait for it to be over. It was very real, and I was just a kid.”

— Mariel Hemingway

21. “I thought my book was done, then we went to Hawaii and the whole last chapter happened.”

— Mariel Hemingway

22. “Everyone needs to take control of his or her own life by making sense of it. It doesn’t matter how conventional or unconventional that process is.”

— Mariel Hemingway

23. “I think it’s the misperception of addiction and living life on the edge, as if it’s cool.”

— Mariel Hemingway

24. “I do a lot of work with mental health and wellness, which I also believe has a lot to do with your lifestyle as well – what you’re eating, how you’re living, what you’re thinking. How you live your life can affect your mental state.”

— Mariel Hemingway

25. “I say to people, keep it simple. If you want to change your food, change your breakfast.”

— Mariel Hemingway

26. “I felt I had to share Idaho with my friend from New York because he’d shared New York with me, so I was going to share the beauty of nature with a man who went to museums and clubs late at night. But there was nothing to do where I lived at night.”

— Mariel Hemingway

27. “If you’re an addict, if you drink and you’re putting a depressant into your body, it’s going to cause serious problems.”

— Mariel Hemingway

28. “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.”

— Mariel Hemingway

29. “Being loud after drinking wine doesn’t help. Being silent after drinking wine doesn’t help. Nothing really ever gets solved either way.”

— Mariel Hemingway

30. “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.”

— Mariel Hemingway

31. “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.”

— Mariel Hemingway

32. “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.”

— Mariel Hemingway

33. “There’s nothing beautiful about somebody killing themselves.”

— Mariel Hemingway

34. “We’re taught to take care of people we love, but sometimes you can’t.”

— Mariel Hemingway

35. “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.”

— Mariel Hemingway

36. “I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction.”

— Mariel Hemingway

37. “I’m not that old, and I haven’t lived a life so far from the ordinary, really.”

— Mariel Hemingway

38. “I don’t take myself terribly seriously. It’s why I can be incredibly honest about my life.”

— Mariel Hemingway

39. “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

40. “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

41. “The experience of getting my Kriya, which is the meditation process that I do, was very powerful for me – though, as I explain in the book, I was really suspect of that kind of thing.”

— Mariel Hemingway

42. “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.”

— Mariel Hemingway

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43. “Starting out in a beginner class and really understanding the fundamentals of yoga is really important.”

— Mariel Hemingway

44. “I got back into the position of taking care of my husband, which is what I’d learned that I couldn’t really do: you can love and make things okay to a certain extent, but you can’t fix. I didn’t quite learn that until the kayaking incident. It became so clear then.”

— Mariel Hemingway

45. “Maybe in any art you have to be wholly you in the context of whatever you’re doing.”

— Mariel Hemingway

46. “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.”

— Mariel Hemingway

47. “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.”

— Mariel Hemingway

48. “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.”

— Mariel Hemingway

49. “For me, first, it’s finding quiet in my life – and I do that through yoga and meditation. It’s also been a matter of changing the way I eat, because I think what we eat can inform who we are; food is a chemical and a drug to a certain extent.”

— Mariel Hemingway

50. “I use nothing but homeopathic remedies, for my girls as well.”

— Mariel Hemingway