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I think what's so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one.
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Brit Marling
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: August 7
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Brit Heyworth Marling
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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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I think movies do change people's hearts.
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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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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.
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For some reason, I have a very strange conception of time. I am constantly hovering at some overview, more macro.
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There are so many filmmakers who are so talented, and actors and writers who work so hard, and it's really hard to let your work enter the world.
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It doesn't happen all the time, but in the moments where you really lose yourself and you fall into this character, it's like time travel.
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I feel like developing the muscle of my imagination became a way to survive reality.
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I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.
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Writing so that I can act became a way of having not more control over my future but not having to wait for permission. You can choose yourself. Hmm, who should play this part? I nominate me!
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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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But, it has something to do with having belief in a human future and what that human future is. What is the future of humanity? How does this whole experiment not self-destruct with the environment and everything else going on?
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I think the first thing I thought when I got out to L.A. was just: Oh, if I want to act, I have to find a different way to go about it because the parts for girls are as dispiriting as the banking jobs. You have to really be willing to invent, I guess, a different path for yourself.
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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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That's the funny thing about cinema, it is an intellectual medium, but it's also sort of anti-intellectual.
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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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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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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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Life is beautiful because it doesn't last.
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I totally love my job, and I wake up every day basically thinking about how can I do my job better. It never feels like a job. It's hard, and it's exhausting sometimes, but it never feels like - I would do this even if they didn't pay me to do it. That's a pretty amazing feeling.
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