Brit Marling Quotes

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.
Brit Marling

Mind, Person, Working

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

Person, Thought, Far

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.
Brit Marling

Work, Poetry, Give

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

Feeling, Moment, Whole

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

Time, Knowledge, Idea

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!
Brit Marling

Life, Great, Car

Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.
Brit Marling

Human, Messy, Flawed

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.
Brit Marling

Coming, Room, Kitchen

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.
Brit Marling

Life, Science, Live

I get uncomfortable when people give me presents and watch me open them. I don't have birthday parties, because the idea of a group of people singing and looking at me while I'm blowing out candles gives me hives.
Brit Marling

Birthday, Give, Idea

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.
Brit Marling

Yourself, Parents, Enough

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.
Brit Marling

Human, Find, Before

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.
Brit Marling

Time, End, Perfect

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

Sometimes, Big, Means

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.
Brit Marling

Future, Human, Living

I think we're always looking for an excuse to connect.
Brit Marling

Looking, Excuse, Connect

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

Scared, Bit, Intimacy

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

Live, Acting, Attractive

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

Work, Good, Brain

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

Around, Loved, Growing

I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.
Brit Marling

Romantic, Bit, Naive

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.
Brit Marling

Morning, Two, Until

If you play it safe every time, then you're missing the best part of acting. You haven't learned anything about your humanity.
Brit Marling

Time, Best, Humanity

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

Girl, Two, Worse

Life is beautiful because it doesn't last.
Brit Marling

Life, Beautiful, Last

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Nationality: American

Type: Writer

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