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I think I am looking as an actor to find ways to push myself into places I haven't been before as a human being.
Brit Marling
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Brit Marling
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: August 7
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Any man worth his salt loves a feminist. Only men who are afraid of the feminine in themselves are afraid of women.
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I feel like I'm a much better person when I'm developing my imagination and my innocence and my vulnerability. I like that version of me better than the version where I'm just working on my analytical mind.
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I get uncomfortable when people give me presents and watch me open them. I don't have birthday parties, because the idea of a group of people singing and looking at me while I'm blowing out candles gives me hives.
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Life is beautiful because it doesn't last.
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Is there anything worse than being called the 'It Girl?' By definition, there will be a new one in two weeks.
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People go to the cinema to be moved they wanna laugh, they wanna cry, they wanna feel something deeply, especially if they're not feeling deeply in their own lives.
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So writing became a way to get to act in things that I thought were meaningful, and hopefully write stronger roles for other women.
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As an actor, you have an accumulated knowledge base. But there's also something about it that every time you really feel like you're doing it for the first time you have no idea whether you're capable of it.
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So at some point you realize that your life is not just going to start one day in the future, that you're living it.
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Sometimes big budget means explosions! CGI! CGI, the possibilities are so limitless that it begins to be impractical. I'm more interested in the kinds of movies where the science fiction world has a set series of rules and you operate in it because of, maybe, constraints in the budget.
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Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life.
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A lot of people think, 'I'll give acting or poetry or filmmaking a try. And if it doesn't work out I'll go get a law degree, do something else that's more practical.' For me I went the reverse way. I lived the back-up plan.
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My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics. I'm not one of those people who can just spout off numbers for things, if numbers are thrown at me.
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Being a waitress can be a very brutal job sometimes, and I remember during the training, the person said to me, The redder the lips, the better the tips, and that was like the only advice she gave me.
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I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.
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I think we're in this exciting moment of Internet streaming storytelling, and it's anybody's guess what that is or what it means. It can take on any form. That's what's so exciting about the time we're in these filmmakers are coming in and letting the story tell itself as it wants to be told.
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The more time you invest in something, potentially, the deeper the emotional impact of the climax. It's true of relationships, too.
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That's the funny thing about cinema, it is an intellectual medium, but it's also sort of anti-intellectual.
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