Gummer Quotes

#1. John Gummer just did not have the political clout or credibility to rally the troops. I had appointed him as a sort of nightwatchman, but he seemed to have to sleep on the job.

Margaret Thatcher

#2. I'm just lucky to have great parents. My sister's an actress. My brother's a musician. I found it hard growing up in such a ... creatively driven family. I wanted to have this thing to create, myself.

Grace Gummer

#3. My eyes are too small, and they're too close together, and I have a pointy nose. But who cares? Who cares?!

Mamie Gummer

#4. I went through so many phases because I moved schools a lot. I grew up primarily in Connecticut, but also here in L.A. for five years.

Mamie Gummer

#5. I'm 23, so I'm not done with my life. But acting, definitely, out of what I've done so far, makes me feel the most alive and is very invigorating and thrilling. So I figured I might as well try it for a while.

Grace Gummer

#6. I feel like I'm a secondary artist, a kind of a conduit for the writer, and if it's a good writer, then I have a great road map.

Mamie Gummer

#7. A lot of the scripts I read and the characters I get are 'the girl' in romantic films, and I don't know how comfortable I am, or the world is, with me being that.

Mamie Gummer

#8. If I do have kids, I can't wait because I'm excited to go back to school to help them with their homework and remember how to do simple math. I think it's about staying curious and not losing the sense of wonder.

Mamie Gummer

#9. I have roles in plays that I hope that I'll be able to do one day. I might be doing them at, like, the East Wilton Playhouse in wherever. But I think that Edie Falco ... to get something even resembling her type of roles, that would be amazing.

Mamie Gummer

#10. I spent my summers in Connecticut scooping ice cream and babysitting.

Grace Gummer

#11. All the women that are first born daughters in my family are named Mary, but we've all been given nicknames. I don't know how or why that started, but I'm nicknamed after my great-grandmother, who was Mamie. No one ever calls me Mary, except only if my husband is very serious about something.

Mamie Gummer

#12. A tolerant society is one in which we criminalise an activity only as a last resort. Toleration is not just about allowing people to do things of which we approve, but about allowing them to do things of which we do not approve.

John Gummer

#13. L.A. is ... I always feel sort of abducted when I'm there, like I've stepped onto another planet where everyone looks the same.

Mamie Gummer

#14. I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.

Mamie Gummer

#15. I've kind of blocked it out, but a good friend affectionately reminded me that yes, I was a dork. I was not a cool kid in high school.

Mamie Gummer

#16. Eighty percent of the people of Britain want more money spent on public transport - in order that other people will travel on the buses so that there is more room for them to drive their cars.

John Gummer

#17. I was an optimistic person, really bossy, gregarious and outspoken.

Mamie Gummer

#18. All I really want to do is plays - and that's a New York thing.

Mamie Gummer

#19. I feel like I've been the star of my own show for a while now. I was always putting on shows as a kid, and obviously, my household was really creative.

Mamie Gummer

#20. I was a theater major at Northwestern University and won a role in a play called 'Mr. Marmalade' after I graduated.

Mamie Gummer

#21. I like the Dodgers because my dad does - wait, no, not the Dodgers. Strike me down! The Yankees. I like the Yankees.

Mamie Gummer

#22. Poverty is considered quaint in the rural areas because it comes thatched.

John Gummer

#23. Global climate change needs global action now. The alarm bells ought to be ringing in every capital of the world.

John Gummer

#24. I love the energy of an independent film set. No one is there for the money. Everyone is there 'cause they really want to be there. It makes all the difference in the world. It's without ego and agenda, other than just wanting to fulfill a creative dream.

Mamie Gummer

#25. It's not the future I'm talking about, I'm talking about tomorrow.

John Gummer

#26. My favorite charity is the Women's Refugee Commission and the Nomi network.

Mamie Gummer

#27. I don't think I'm ever really going to run the risk of disappearing into a Marvel franchise. I just don't know how I would fit into a catsuit.

Mamie Gummer

#28. Our parents have, by far, the greatest influence on shaping who we are and how we deal with the world.

Mamie Gummer

#29. I'm never not nervous before going onstage. Like ... what if I fall on my face?

Grace Gummer

#30. You do what you can. You have to leave room to grow and make mistakes.

Mamie Gummer

#31. I'd like to learn how to cook. I've hauled around this big, old, heavy Martha Stewart cookbook in my suitcase to Cape Cod, L.A., Paris. I don't know what possessed me.

Mamie Gummer

#32. I watched a lot of old television growing up - a lot of Nick at Nite. I watched 'Rhoda', 'Mary Tyler Moore', and 'I Love Lucy.' Growing up, I loved 'My So Called Life' and was devastated when that went off the air.

Mamie Gummer

#33. Do we have to wait until a disaster overwhelms us before we make the radical changes necessary to protect our world for future generations? That is the vital challenge of sustainable development. If we act now there is much that can be saved which will otherwise disappear forever

John Gummer

#34. I've been told that I'm good at impersonating people.

Grace Gummer

#35. I wanted to be an Olympic swimmer when I was growing up.

Grace Gummer

#36. My dad's great. He's an amazing artist. A sculptor. He's wonderful and supportive. I love going to museums with him - we talk about ... everything.

Grace Gummer

#37. The arts have always been in and around my life.

Grace Gummer

#38. I played lacrosse for a hot second, but I was mainly a swimmer - captain of my swim team.

Grace Gummer

#39. I'd like to keep exploring comedy. I didn't necessarily think of myself as a comedic actress, but it's a lot of fun.

Mamie Gummer

#40. I like how steady the work in television is. Films, they're hard to come by. They're elusive. I've done a couple, independently financed. You do them, and maybe a few people will see them.

Mamie Gummer

#41. My first day on the set of 'John Adams', I was just supposed to fly to Virginia for a costume fitting. But the director figured, why not shoot it, too? So they threw me into a dress that didn't fit, gave me lines I hadn't seen, in a dialect I didn't know, and two screaming, arching infants.

Mamie Gummer