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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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Living in Cuba made me unafraid of whatever could happen to me.
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The only thing that's important is that every day I'm waking and doing something that I really love to do.
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One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.
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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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I've found myself at one in the morning just sitting at my desk spending an hour returning emails from the day until like two in the morning. It's ridiculous, I should be sleeping, or dreaming, or reading a novel.
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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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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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I think I realized very early on that you can spend a lot of time constructing a really perfect scene in final draft and just end up throwing it away because you didn't figure out that mathematics of the story first.
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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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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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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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I feel like developing the muscle of my imagination became a way to survive reality.
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Because we're watching so many movies and are consumed by so many stories, science fiction lets you do something a bit fresh and that hasn't been seen before.
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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 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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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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Once you play with these scenes and you're outlining it, again and again, and telling each other the narrative, and telling it to people you know, trying to make sure that the mathematics of the story work, you feel that those are in place, and the actual writing and final draft doesn't take as long.
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