120 Quotes by Brit Marling

I’d love to do anything that is outside of my comfort zone, that I’ve never done before. Whenever I think about something that I want to take on, I like it if it makes me a bit nervous, or makes me feel like I don’t know exactly that I can pull it off.

So much of the world is being brought up on these stories that Hollywood is coming up with and exporting all over. They have so much power and influence, so it’s really important that they represent women properly.

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.

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

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.

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 never want to repeat the same thing. I always want it to be different from what I’ve done, and to be not quite sure whether or not I can pull it off, until I hopefully do.

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

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