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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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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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A lot of people think, 'I'll give acting or poetry or filmmaking a try. And if it doesn't work out I'll go get a law degree, do something else that's more practical.' For me I went the reverse way. I lived the back-up plan.
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One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.
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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 think there is a general unrest or curiosity about what a human future is going to be like, and whether the way we're living is even sustainable.
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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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Life and death and birth is this fantastic mystery that we cannot fully grasp.
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I always feel like the editing room is like coming into the kitchen. What kind of a meal do you make from there? It can be anything.
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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 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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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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That's the funny thing about cinema, it is an intellectual medium, but it's also sort of anti-intellectual.
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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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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'd studied theater growing up and loved that, but didn't have many examples of artists around me.
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I feel like developing the muscle of my imagination became a way to survive reality.
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