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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
My eyes are too small, and they’re too close together, and I have a pointy nose. But who cares? Who cares?! Mamie Gummer Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there’s some awareness that that’s the last time they can do that for awhile. Mamie Gummer Read Quote
