9 Brit Marling Quotes
BrIt Marling is an American actor, director, and producer known for her thought-provoking movies such as Another Earth and I Origins, as well as the TV show The OA. If you see her name on a project, you can bet it’s going to make you think.
She’s also pretty good saying substantive things. Here are a few quotes that fit our motivational theme on this site.
The only thing that's important is that every day I'm waking and doing something that I really love to do.
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 we accept a lot of those boxes, that labeling, and the way that we perceive the world, but what even is perception? It all seems pretty flexible to me.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.
You are the sum total of the choices you make every day.
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.
A couple of compromises in a row and suddenly you're very far way from the person you thought you were.
Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life.
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!
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.
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.