Words matter. These are the best Brit Marling Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
A whole film is just about arriving at a moment where you hopefully transfer some feeling to the audience.
I think we’re always looking for an excuse to connect.
The litmus test for whether I want to take on a role or not is usually fear. If I’m afraid of it, then I want to do it.
I didn’t understand how you could be an actor if you didn’t also study philosophy and study political science, astronomy. And also just go out and live life and have experiences.
I feel like I’m a much better person when I’m developing my imagination and my innocence and my vulnerability. I like that version of me better than the version where I’m just working on my analytical mind.
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.
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!
The only thing that’s important is that every day I’m waking and doing something that I really love to do.
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.
I think what’s so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one.
You are the sum total of the choices you make every day.
One of my favorite stories growing up was ‘A Wrinkle in Time’. I loved that book.
We put limitations on the way that we think about things, on ourselves, think about all the boxes we live in, male or female, you’re this age, that age, this is your job, this is not your job, everything is about getting boxed in.
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.
I’m still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.
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.
Living in Cuba made me unafraid of whatever could happen to me.
I think sometimes big budget means explosions! CGI! CGI, the possibilities are so limitless that it begins to be impractical.
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.
If you play it safe every time, then you’re missing the best part of acting. You haven’t learned anything about your humanity.
Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life.
Modern life has gotten so strange, we all get 150 emails and text messages a day, and it’s hard when things are moving that quickly to keep that sense of wonder about being alive.
You know, I can’t imagine 9 to 5 writing. That takes some stamina.
One of the great pleasures of acting is surrendering to someone else’s point of view of the world – living inside a character and a story that never would have come out of your mind or heart.
I wasn’t actually very naturally good at economics. My brain doesn’t work very well, in terms of mathematics.
