Carpenter, Mary Chapin Filmography

• No Going Back: Women and the War
  2012, role: actress , character name: Narrator
• Trail Mix
  2006, role: actress , character name: Herself
• CMT: 40 Greatest Women of Country Music
  2002, role: actress , character name: Herself
• An All-Star Tribute to Joni Mitchell
  2000, role: actress , character name: Herself - Performer
• Christopher Reeve: A Celebration of Hope
  1998, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Hard Rock Live
  1997, role: actress , character name: Performer
• The Gift of Song
  1997, role: actress , character name: Herself
• The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts
  1997, role: actress , character name: Herself
• An Evening in Dublin with Mary Chapin Carpenter & Paul Brady
  1996, role: actress , character name: Herself
• The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts
  1996, role: actress , character name: Herself
• The 38th Annual Grammy Awards
  1996, role: actress , character name: Herself
• 1995 VH1 Honors
  1995, role: actress , character name: Herself
• In the Spotlight: Mary Chapin Carpenter
  1995, role: actress , character name: Herself
• The 30th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards
  1995, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Tony Bennett: Here's to the Ladies, a Concert of Hope
  1995, role: actress , character name: Herself
• The 36th Annual Grammy Awards
  1994, role: actress , character name: Herself - Presenter
• The 35th Annual Grammy Awards
  1993, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Bob Dylan: 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration
  1993, role: actress , character name: Herself
• The 28th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards
  1993, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Billy Ray Cyrus: Dreams Come True
  1993, role: actress , character name: Herself
• The Women of Country
  1993, role: actress , character name: Herself
• An American Reunion: The People's Inaugural Celebration
  1993, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Child of Mine: Songs to Our Children
  1992, role: actress , character name: Herself
• 26th Annual Country Music Association Awards
  1992, role: actress , character name: Herself - Performer
• The Best of Country '92: Countdown at the Neon Armadillo
  1992, role: actress , character name: Herself - Host
• A Festival at Ford's
  1991, role: actress , character name: Herself
• 25th Annual Country Music Association Awards
  1991, role: actress , character name: Herself
• 24th Annual Country Music Association Awards
  1990, role: actress , character name: Herself - Performer
• The 25th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards
  1990, role: actress , character name: Herself

Famous quotes by Mary Chapin Carpenter:

"Every sleepy boy and girl in every bed around the world ~~ Can hear the stars up in the sky whispering a lullaby"

"It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after."

"I don't really remember my folks singing to us, but they read to us."

"Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Veterans of America foundation and the Campaign for a Land Mine Free World."

"So I came home and I had a resume and everything, but the only job experience I had was just playing in bars and clubs on my summers off. So, I was temping and stuff during the day and playing music at night."

"It's like the code of living by yourself. People who are single know what I'm talking about. You eat standing up, reading the paper. Or you say to yourself, this isn't even cutting it, I'm taking a TV dinner and I'm getting in bed here."

"I was a liberal arts junkie and I figured, well, I'll go work for somebody somewhere. All I knew was that I was going to have to come home and figure it out."

"I'm a liberal arts junkie."

"When I think of the artists I admire and seek out musically. It's because I'm curious about where they're going to go the next time they have a chance to put a record out. It's not about where I find them on the radio dial, or how many records they're selling."

"There's timing. And then there's also certain people at the record company who worked incredibly hard and were incredibly enthusiastic about what I was doing."

"So I think that if I do feel more freedom right now in my career, it's not so much because I have less at stake but more a sense that I've learned more."

"I went to college and I never allowed myself to think for an instant that I would have this chance to do this."

"As far as feeling freedom in my career now versus five years ago... I think if I feel any more free it's simply because of the experiences that I've had, and the wisdom I've accumulated from that time."

"My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India."

"Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium."

"I've never... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure anywhere except from myself, to do things the way I wanted to do them; to feel authentic; to feel like I was presenting my true self to the world."

"You know, I didn't have enough money to quit my day job... the myth of the major label deal. Nowadays, you have a tour bus and a stylist and all this stuff. But back then, no way."

"It's a marvelous feeling when someone says 'I want to do this song of yours' because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after."

"I don't think you need to dumb down to a child, you merely have to be clear, you know?"

"I kept thinking, I went to college and I have to get a real job."