Words matter. These are the best Mamie Gummer Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I like the Dodgers because my dad does – wait, no, not the Dodgers. Strike me down! The Yankees. I like the Yankees.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Our parents have, by far, the greatest influence on shaping who we are and how we deal with the world.
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.
I was a theater major at Northwestern University and won a role in a play called ‘Mr. Marmalade’ after I graduated.
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.
I was an optimistic person, really bossy, gregarious and outspoken.
My eyes are too small, and they’re too close together, and I have a pointy nose. But who cares? Who cares?!
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.
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.
