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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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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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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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One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.
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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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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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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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Life is beautiful because it doesn't last.
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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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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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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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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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I'd studied theater growing up and loved that, but didn't have many examples of artists around me.
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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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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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Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life.
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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 feel like success to me is about feeling like I have done something in storytelling, where I've gotten close to articulating something intangible that I'm feeling, and I think I get closer every time, but I don't know that I've done that yet.
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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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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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