Brit Marling
Brit Marling
Brit Heyworth Marlingis an American actress, screenwriter and film producer. She first gained recognition in 2004 with the documentary Boxers and Ballerinas and later became a Sundance star with the Searchlight movies Sound of My Voice, Another Earthand The Eastwhich she co-wrote in addition to playing the lead role...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth7 August 1983
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
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.
When you're reading Chekov, you're in this world that he's created. I never would have created that world. I don't know anything about that time period or that setting or those groups of people or what those experiences were, but oh my gosh, it's amazing to daydream on it and put yourself there.
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!
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.
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.
The most intoxicating thing about being an actor is to surrender to a story that you never would have come up with.
Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life.
Life is beautiful because it doesn't last.
Is there anything worse than being called the 'It Girl?' By definition, there will be a new one in two weeks.
One of the things that's awesome about being an actor is that you get to do stories, live lives and have experiences that you never could have even conceived of, and that's because you're living in another writer's imagination and another director's imagination.
If you play it safe every time, then you're missing the best part of acting. You haven't learned anything about your humanity.
I'd studied theater growing up and loved that, but didn't have many examples of artists around me.
I wasn't actually very naturally good at economics. My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics.
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.