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Brit Marling
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: August 7
Actor
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Film Actor
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Brit Heyworth Marling
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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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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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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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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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Then in college, besides economics, I also majored in studio art and got involved in photography and making short films and acting. But I didn't know you could make a living that way.
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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'd studied theater growing up and loved that, but didn't have many examples of artists around me.
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I think we're in this exciting moment of Internet streaming storytelling, and it's anybody's guess what that is or what it means. It can take on any form. That's what's so exciting about the time we're in these filmmakers are coming in and letting the story tell itself as it wants to be told.
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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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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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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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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 movies do change people's hearts.
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One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.
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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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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 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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Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life.
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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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