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If you play it safe every time, then you're missing the best part of acting. You haven't learned anything about your humanity.

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Brit Marling
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: August 7
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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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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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Life is beautiful because it doesn't last.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life.
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