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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.
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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I feel like developing the muscle of my imagination became a way to survive reality.
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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 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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When I was a kid and going to the movies I was overwhelmed by the way women were always second-class citizens in the film.
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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 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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One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.
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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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Once you play with these scenes and you're outlining it, again and again, and telling each other the narrative, and telling it to people you know, trying to make sure that the mathematics of the story work, you feel that those are in place, and the actual writing and final draft doesn't take as long.
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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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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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Life is beautiful because it doesn't last.
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Living in Cuba made me unafraid of whatever could happen to me.
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