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I think what's so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one.
Brit Marling
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Brit Marling
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: August 7
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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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The most intoxicating thing about being an actor is to surrender to a story that you never would have come up with.
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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, when the audience connects with something, they enjoy the experience so much that they want other people to go have it. They're like, Don't talk about it. Don't tell. Just go! It's a nice feeling to have people coming around it that way, protecting the ideas in it, so that everyone can see it for themselves.
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I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.
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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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I learned from my parents the idea that, if you are devoted enough and you want to study something enough, you can really teach yourself anything.
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Living in Cuba made me unafraid of whatever could happen to me.
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I think sometimes big budget means explosions! CGI! CGI, the possibilities are so limitless that it begins to be impractical.
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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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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'd studied theater growing up and loved that, but didn't have many examples of artists around me.
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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 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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It seems to be this hot-bed for these ideas and bringing these groups together. You find that the one thing that everybody has in common, whether they're a teenager who has run away from his parents, or a divorcee who lost her husband, is that they all have in common this feeling of searching for a meaning in their 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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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 believe in what science fiction can do, which is it can set up simple rules that it has to follow to try to illuminate something about the present that is somewhat invisible to us.
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Life is beautiful because it doesn't last.
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I think one thing for sure that you learn the more films that you make is how important it is to choose your collaborators.
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