Mamie Gummer Quotes

#1. Huh. Perhaps I was a bit too much of a dick the first two times I talked to her. Good thing she didn't know I briefly considered burning her house down.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#2. 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

#3. Accurate analysis of over 25,000 men and women who had experienced failure, disclosed the fact that lack of decision was near the head of the list of the 30 major causes of failure. This is no mere statement of a theory - it is a fact. Procrastination,

Napoleon Hill

#4. 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

#5. The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life.

Jimmy Carter

#6. There is no man that is knowingly wicked but is guilty to himself; and there is no man that carries guilt about him but he receives a sting in his soul.

John Tillotson

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. Its okay to have a job that fits your passions, we don't have to suffer for money.

Doreen Virtue

#10. 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

#11. 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

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

Mamie Gummer

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

Mamie Gummer

#14. You can do all manner of underhanded nice things when you have a caustic reputation.

Markus Zusak

#15. 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

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

Mamie Gummer

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

Mamie Gummer

#18. The cloud controls the light ... It is the cloud that, holding the sun's rays in a sheaf as a giant holds a handful of spears, strikes the horizon, touches the extreme edge with a delicate revelation of light, or suddenly puts it out and makes the foreground shine.

Alice Meynell

#19. 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

#20. The Web has a very different effect. It places more pressure on our working memory, not only diverting resources from our higher reasoning faculties but obstructing the consolidation of long-term memories and the development of schemas.

Nicholas Carr

#21. 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

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

Mamie Gummer

#23. 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

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

Mamie Gummer

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

Mamie Gummer

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. Honestly, in retrospect, I would wish for future generations to have the ability to have a coming out process that was less alcohol-soaked than mine was.

Christopher Rice

#29. 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

#30. 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

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

Mamie Gummer

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. I'm better than P. T. Barnum and Colonel Parker put together.

Evel Knievel

#35. 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