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Film actress

Brit Marling, born on August 7, 1983, is an accomplished American actress known for her remarkable performances in independent films. She gained recognition for her role in 'Another Earth' alongside Zal Batmanglij, which earned the film numerous awards, including the Sundance Film Festival. Marling is celebrated for her unique acting style and profound understanding of her characters.

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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.”

Thinking Way Humans Curiosity Unrest

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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.”

Life Is Realizing One Day

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“I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.”

Stills Bits Naive Idealist

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“A couple of compromises in a row and suddenly you're very far way from the person you thought you were.”

Way Persons Couple Compromise

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“A whole film is just about arriving at a moment where you hopefully transfer some feeling to the audience.”

Whole Moments Feelings Film Audience Hopefully Transfers Arriving

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“Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.”

Humans Human Beings Complicated Flawed Messy

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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.”

Feels Kind Rooms Meals Kitchen Editing

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“I learned from my parents the idea that, if you are devoted enough and you want to study something enough, you can really teach yourself anything.”

Ifs Want Ideas Enough Parent Teach Study Devoted

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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.”

Thinking Way Humans Actors Human Beings Havens

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“I think sometimes big budget means explosions! CGI! CGI, the possibilities are so limitless that it begins to be impractical.”

Thinking Mean Sometimes Bigs Possibility Budgets Limitless Explosions Cgi

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“I think we're always looking for an excuse to connect.”

Thinking Excuse

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“I think we're scared of intimacy - all of us, a little bit.”

Thinking Littles Bits Little Bit Scared Intimacy

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“I think what's so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one.”

Thinking Acting Lifetime Attractive

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“I wasn't actually very naturally good at economics. My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics.”

Wells Term Brain Economics Mathematics

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“I'd studied theater growing up and loved that, but didn't have many examples of artists around me.”

Artist Growing Up Growing Example Theater

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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.”

Ifs Play Humanity Acting Missing Havens Safe

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“Is there anything worse than being called the 'It Girl?' By definition, there will be a new one in two weeks.”

Two Girl Week Definitions Two Weeks

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“Life is beautiful because it doesn't last.”

Lasts Beautiful Life Is Life Is Beautiful

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“Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life.”

Realizing Wake Up Scary Courageous Waking

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“One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.”

Book Stories Growing Up Growing My Favorite Wrinkles Wrinkle In Time

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“Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic.”

World Way Bits Fiction Science Fiction Philosopher Pops Didactic

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“Here's the thing that I think about life - if you manage to get into a space where you don't need that much, where the overhead of your life is not that great and you're pretty happy and relaxed without that much stuff, you are really liberated because you never have to say yes to something because you want another refrigerator or car!”

Ifs Thinking Want Needs Life Is Stuff Space Car Manage Relaxed Liberated Refrigerators Overhead You Re Pretty

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“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.”

World Mind Heart Character Stories Pleasure Views Acting Point Of View

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“You are the sum total of the choices you make every day.”

Choices Choices You Make

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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!”

Way Should Writing I Can Play Waiting Permission My Future Hmm

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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.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Giving Trying Law Actors Acting Plans Degrees Work Out Practicals Movie Filmmaking Reverse

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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.”

Important Waking

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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.”

Feels Firsts Ideas Actors Like You Capable First Time No Idea

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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.”

Thinking Firsts Ends Stories Perfect Figures Scene Mathematics Finals I Realized Throwing

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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.”

Way Kids Film Class Citizens Overwhelmed Second Class Citizens

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“I've found myself at one in the morning just sitting at my desk spending an hour returning emails from the day until like two in the morning. It's ridiculous, I should be sleeping, or dreaming, or reading a novel.”

Should Two Dream Reading Found Hours Sleep Morning Novel Sitting Spending Ridiculous Desks Email

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“When I'm sitting writing, I know that something works if I've made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion.”

Ifs Knows Writing Made Emotion Laughing Cry Sitting Visceral

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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.”

Knows Way Art Film Acting College Involved Photography Economics Studios Short Films

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“Maybe the best definition of what a great partnership or great love is when people make each other grow in a better direction than they would have grown on their own.”

People Grows Love Is Definitions Being The Best Partnership Great Love

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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.”

Persons Said Sometimes Jobs Remember Advice Training Lips Brutal Waitress

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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.”

Thinking Knows Feels Done Feelings Storytelling Intangible Articulating

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“I'm really into rocks. I have a really serious rock collection. Rocks and feathers and shells and strange found things in nature. I have a lot of those kinds of collections.”

Kind Found Rocks Strange Serious Collections Shells Feathers

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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.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Sometimes Hard Feelings Jobs Pay Wake Up Exhausting

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“I think movies do change people's hearts.”

People Thinking Heart

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“That's the funny thing about cinema, it is an intellectual medium, but it's also sort of anti-intellectual.”

Intellectual Mediums Cinema Funny Things

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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.”

People Ifs Feels Feelings Laughing Cry Moved Cinema

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“I think one thing for sure that you learn the more films that you make is how important it is to choose your collaborators.”

Thinking Important Film One Thing Collaborators

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“I used to be able to sit in a chair and for four hours straight in a very focused meditative way be in my own world without ay interruption. And now it's like your brain is getting so trained to check your phone, and there is like a dopamine release every time you get a text whether it's a good or a bad one. I'm really worried about what it's doing to our minds.”

World Way Mind Able Used Hours My Own Brain Four Like You Phones Focused Checks Used To Be Release Worried Chairs Interruptions Dopamine My Own World

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“Sometimes big budget means explosions! CGI! CGI, the possibilities are so limitless that it begins to be impractical. I'm more interested in the kinds of movies where the science fiction world has a set series of rules and you operate in it because of, maybe, constraints in the budget.”

World Kind Mean Sometimes Bigs Fiction Possibility Science Fiction Series Budgets Limitless Explosions Constraints Cgi

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“If you came from the future and you arrived here, what would you be like? Would your immune system be depressed from that travel? Would you be well? Would you be ill? Would you be affected by micro-organisms of the time period and be hiding out in a basement? How would it all work, practically?”

Ifs Wells Periods Ill Affected Hiding Organisms Immune Basements Immune System Time Periods Hiding Out

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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.”

People Way Want Feels Ideas Feelings Enjoy Audience Nice Nice Feeling

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“I think you get to see, through the different cult members, why people are attracted to a group like this. Everyone is there for a different reason and from a different background. That was part of what was interesting for us, in researching cults and exploring it. A lot of this happens in California.”

People Thinking Different Reason Happens Interesting Groups Members Backgrounds California Exploring Cult Different Backgrounds

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“It seems to be this hot-bed for these ideas and bringing these groups together. You find that the one thing that everybody has in common, whether they're a teenager who has run away from his parents, or a divorcee who lost her husband, is that they all have in common this feeling of searching for a meaning in their lives.”

Ideas Feelings Seems Running Together Lost Parent Common One Thing Groups Bed Husband Hot Teenager Running Away

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“When you come out to L.A. to make movies or to do this kind of work, everybody is coming out on their own and you leave your tribe behind. Then, it's a question of, that was your tribe by blood, and now, what is the tribe that you're making by choice or by what you think is important? I think we were having that experience, so somehow the cult world seemed really compelling.”

Thinking World Kind Important Choices Behinds Blood Coming Out Compelling Tribes Cult

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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?”

Humans Doe Self Whole Humanity Belief Environment Experiments Self Destruct Future Of Humanity

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About the Author

Born: August 7, 1983
Known for: Film actress
Quotes: 86

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