Mariel Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

You have to have a little faith in people.

I think that growth and spiritual awareness come in slow increments. Sometimes you don't know it's happening.

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.

The 'Hemingway curse' was such a huge, awful thing for me to have to deal with. . . . The reality is, because there are genetic tendencies toward mental illness, you need to be aware of them.

Yoga teaches you how to listen to your body.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

It's not that I don't believe in miracles, but I never quite trust that they're real.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

I think we should be passionately curious about what we do.

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.

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.

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.

Living a simpler life has turned out to be one of the keys to being more awake and healthy.

Lets try to come to a place of compassion about mental illness, in all its forms, and help each other find healing.

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.

I don't take myself terribly seriously. It's why I can be incredibly honest about my life.

There's nothing beautiful about somebody killing themselves.

How you live your life can affect your mental state.

We're taught to take care of people we love, but sometimes you can't.

Sometimes you can't see your way out. The "dark night of the soul" - it's a reality for many, many people.

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

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

Each second is a second you can make a new choice, a better choice, a healthy choice, a present choice.

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.

I'm not that old, and I haven't lived a life so far from the ordinary, really.

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.

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.

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.

I think talent, especially in acting, is being wholly yourself within the context of yourself.

My problems aren't so different from anybody else.

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

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

Once you take care of yourself, you become the example, and then everybody around you can change.

Even with mental health as well as physical health, it's about taking responsibility and knowing that you're part of the solution always.