Mamie Till Quotes

#1. I've married a few people I shouldn't have, but haven't we all?

Mamie Van Doren

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

Mamie Gummer

#3. Human laws pattern divine laws, but divine laws use only originals.

Mamie Smith

#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. My best asset is my brain. Without my brain, I don't think the rest of me would be too hot.

Mamie Van Doren

#6. Success is failure with the dirt brushed off.

Mamie McCullough

#7. I am pleased that I am able to stand here today and say with a pure heart and meaningful heart that I am against the death penalty. There is no purpose that it serves except to further the damage that death has already done.

Mamie Till

#8. 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

#9. When people saw what had happened to my son, men stood up who had never stood up before.

Mamie Till

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. I never wanted to be a trophy wife. I wanted to make it on my own. I didn't want to depend on a man.

Mamie Van Doren

#16. 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

#17. If you have to get on your knees and bow when a white person goes past do it willingly.

Mamie Till

#18. Raising children with an emphasis on intrinsic rewards is not a technique, a method or a trick to get them to do what the parent wants them to by subtler means, but a way of life, a way of living with children with real respect for their intelligence and for their being.

Mamie Van Doren

#19. I have never been a Marilyn Monroe wannabe. I have always been happy in my own skin!

Mamie Van Doren

#20. I had a career. His name was Ike.

Mamie Eisenhower

#21. I think everybody needed to know what had happened to Emmett Till,

Mamie Till

#22. 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

#23. Mamie told me living rooms were once known as death rooms, back when funerals were a home matter. After mortuaries came into fashion, there was no need for keeping bodies on ice at home, and the death room was rechristened the living room.

Sarah Jude

#24. I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.

Mamie Van Doren

#25. 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

#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 studied really hard. But Hollywood never appreciated my talent.

Mamie Van Doren

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

Mamie Gummer

#31. Have you ever sent a loved son on vacation, and had him returned to you in a pine box, so horribly battered and water-logged that someone needs to tell you this sickening sight is your son, lynched?

Mamie Till

#32. With each day, I give thanks for the blessings of life - the blessings of another day and the chance to do something with it. Something good. Something significant. Something helpful. No matter how small it might seem. I want to keep making a difference.

Mamie Till-Mobley

#33. Success consists of a series of little daily efforts.

Mamie McCullough

#34. Be a self-starter. Do it now! When you don't know how to do something, start. Beware of the paralysis of analysis. Be a person of action.

Mamie McCullough

#35. Your husband is the boss - and don't forget it.

Mamie Eisenhower

#36. Ike runs the country, and I turn the pork chops.

Mamie Eisenhower

#37. Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and I were so different from each other. I was doing very young movies, and Marilyn, who was ahead of me, was doing a lot of homogenized movies that weren't quite as wild as the ones I was doing. Jayne was more of a character of herself.

Mamie Van Doren

#38. I've never acted my age and I never will. It's just the way I've always been.

Mamie Van Doren

#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. East Side, West Side, all around the town,
The tots sang Ring-a-rosie, London Bridge is falling Down;
Boys and Girls together, me and Mamie O'Rorke,
Tripped the light fantastic on the sidewalks of New York.

James W. Blake

#42. 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