Top 100 Quotes About Marling

#1. If the opportunities are not being presented to me, I'm going to take the reins and do it. Brit Marling was not waiting for the phone to ring. The great roles are not there to be had. If you have an idea, do it.

Katie Aselton

Quotes About Marling #862456
#2. I love the music of Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu and more recently the music of Laura Marling. All these women share a strength and a wisdom in their voices and music that really makes me want to make music and sing.

Lianne La Havas

Quotes About Marling #895203
#3. I'm a big Johnny Cash girl. And I love singers like Laura Marling and Joanna Newsom.

Imogen Poots

Quotes About Marling #942230
#4. I had kissed a girl in the second season of 'Community,' but that was my first time kissing a girl ever, and I was so nervous, I almost knocked Brit Marling's teeth out.

Gillian Jacobs

Quotes About Marling #1000368
#5. It is possible," said Miss Marling stiffly, "that Frederick and not Mary will have the ordering of the
journey."
Vidal chuckled. "Not if I know my Mary," he replied

Georgette Heyer

Quotes About Marling #1327585
#6. The most intoxicating thing about being an actor is to surrender to a story that you never would have come up with.

Brit Marling

Quotes About Marling #5951
#7. I just think of everything I do and how happy it will make me to do it. I don't like having my photograph taken, for instance, so I don't do that often.

Laura Marling

Quotes About Marling #13817
#8. I think one thing for sure that you learn the more films that you make is how important it is to choose your collaborators.

Brit Marling

Quotes About Marling #17350
#9. I'm reluctantly interested in love and helplessly interested in logic and yet they're so conflicting. And they're both necessary for a happy balance, a happy existence ... I think.

Laura Marling

Quotes About Marling #31644
#10. 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?

Brit Marling

Quotes About Marling #32819
#11. 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.

Brit Marling

Quotes About Marling #36865
#12. Take me somewhere I can grow
Give me something let me go
Tell me something I don't know

Laura Marling

Quotes About Marling #49132
#13. You are the sum total of the choices you make every day.

Brit Marling

Quotes About Marling #90572
#14. I don't need to sell tons of records, but I want longevity. I want to make music for the rest of my life.

Laura Marling

Quotes About Marling #101487
#15. I think I'll feel out of place wherever I go on earth, forever. But that's fine. I have to make my peace with that.

Laura Marling

Quotes About Marling #106055
#16. The only thing that's important is that every day I'm waking and doing something that I really love to do.

Brit Marling

Quotes About Marling #106643
#17. I need some isolation, it's necessary to me, that's just who I am. I need to be left alone.

Laura Marling

Quotes About Marling #107013
#18. 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.

Brit Marling

Quotes About Marling #126452
#19. People don't appreciate music any more. They don't adore it. They don't buy vinyl and just love it. They love their laptops like their best friend, but they don't love a record for its sound quality and its artwork.

Laura Marling

Quotes About Marling #146864
#20. I'd studied theater growing up and loved that, but didn't have many examples of artists around me.

Brit Marling

Quotes About Marling #179960
#21. I like living in the city, but I like being able to get out of it as and when I like.

Laura Marling

Quotes About Marling #181564
#22. 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

Quotes About Marling #202184
#23. There's a house across the river, but alas, I cannot swim
I'll live my life regretting that I never jumped in

Laura Marling

Quotes About Marling #212672
#24. 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

Quotes About Marling #226798
#25. Touch the sky of human imagination. Read fantasy.

A.E. Marling

Quotes About Marling #230947
#26. Now that I'm feeling the responsibilities of adulthood, the choices we make become an incredible weight.

Laura Marling

Quotes About Marling #254051
#27. When a song wants to be written, it will be written.

Laura Marling

Quotes About Marling #259986
#28. 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

Quotes About Marling #279252
#29. Time sleeping is always well spent.

A.E. Marling

Quotes About Marling #279819
#30. 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

Quotes About Marling #285056
#31. Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.

Brit Marling

Quotes About Marling #294068
#32. Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.

Laura Marling

Quotes About Marling #297634
#33. I made an important decision, which was to pursue happiness. Rather than accept unhappiness. That's why I'm here, and it's great. I'm in a very good place in my life.

Laura Marling

Quotes About Marling #315927
#34. You are what you can prove you've done. That's how people judge you.

Laura Marling

Quotes About Marling #375674
#35. There's huge amounts of nonsense that goes with everything surrounding music and art. All the things you have to do promote yourself - there's huge amounts of nonsense.

Laura Marling

Quotes About Marling #375872
#36. You know, I can't imagine 9 to 5 writing. That takes some stamina.

Brit Marling

Quotes About Marling #388137
#37. A whole film is just about arriving at a moment where you hopefully transfer some feeling to the audience.

Brit Marling

Quotes About Marling #392918
#38. A respectable soul of good quality costs entirely too much to maintain.

A.E. Marling

Quotes About Marling #402447
#39. Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life.

Brit Marling

Quotes About Marling #408293
#40. 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.

Brit Marling

Quotes About Marling #409975
#41. I cannot love, I want to be alone
I will not love, I want to be alone

Laura Marling

Quotes About Marling #420806
#42. That's the funny thing about cinema, it is an intellectual medium, but it's also sort of anti-intellectual.

Brit Marling

Quotes About Marling #433023
#43. I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.

Laura Marling

Quotes About Marling #436248
#44. I think movies do change people's hearts.

Brit Marling

Quotes About Marling #447697
#45. I speak because I can to anyone I trust enough to listen.

Laura Marling

Quotes About Marling #466482
#46. So writing became a way to get to act in things that I thought were meaningful, and hopefully write stronger roles for other women.

Brit Marling

Quotes About Marling #470383
#47. 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?

Brit Marling

Quotes About Marling #472755
#48. I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.

Laura Marling

Quotes About Marling #474793
#49. I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.

Brit Marling

Quotes About Marling #493215
#50. 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.

Brit Marling

Quotes About Marling #503777
#51. Having spent a lot of time trying to figure out screenwriting, I do feel moved and I want to try to write good roles for women of every age.

Brit Marling

Quotes About Marling #512276
#52. 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!

Brit Marling

Quotes About Marling #517571
#53. 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.

Brit Marling

Quotes About Marling #533803
#54. I'm the first to admit that I'm still pretty young,

Laura Marling

Quotes About Marling #545547
#55. Life is beautiful because it doesn't last.

Brit Marling

Quotes About Marling #549070
#56. I think everybody who relates to music is kind of isolated. It's lonely. Everyone who uses the creative side of their brain is that much removed from reality. They are looking for answers wherever they can find them.

Laura Marling

Quotes About Marling #574376
#57. One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.

Brit Marling

Quotes About Marling #589725
#58. 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

Quotes About Marling #597757
#59. I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.

Laura Marling

Quotes About Marling #619018
#60. I can't give up that quick
My life is a candle and a wick
You can put it out, but you can't break it down
In the end we are waiting to be lit

Laura Marling

Quotes About Marling #622958
#61. 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

Quotes About Marling #647470
#62. I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.

Laura Marling

Quotes About Marling #682206
#63. I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by pop culture.

Laura Marling

Quotes About Marling #691004
#64. The litmus test for whether I want to take on a role or not is usually fear. If I'm afraid of it, then I want to do it.

Brit Marling

Quotes About Marling #702042
#65. I wasn't actually very naturally good at economics. My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics.

Brit Marling

Quotes About Marling #708021
#66. Exercise will be the death of me.

A.E. Marling

Quotes About Marling #717252
#67. It took a lot of time and practice for me to realise that there's no point trying to be something you're not.

Laura Marling

Quotes About Marling #734815
#68. A fantasy story is a vacation to another world for the price of a sandwich.

A.E. Marling

Quotes About Marling #749783
#69. Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.

Laura Marling

Quotes About Marling #750567
#70. It's hard to accept yourself as someone you don't desire / As someone you don't want to be.

Laura Marling

Quotes About Marling #769268
#71. I think sometimes big budget means explosions! CGI! CGI, the possibilities are so limitless that it begins to be impractical.

Brit Marling

Quotes About Marling #784152
#72. 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

Quotes About Marling #784259
#73. When I go into a pitch room and I'm pitching something with a writing partner, everybody tends to look at the guy, even if I'm doing a lot of the talking.

Brit Marling

Quotes About Marling #785979
#74. My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism.

Laura Marling

Quotes About Marling #805054
#75. Why fear death? Be scared of living.

Laura Marling

Quotes About Marling #816164
#76. Garments are our second skin, and the truer of the two for being the one we choose.

A.E. Marling

Quotes About Marling #843232
#77. Living in Cuba made me unafraid of whatever could happen to me.

Brit Marling

Quotes About Marling #861140
#78. A couple of compromises in a row and suddenly you're very far way from the person you thought you were.

Brit Marling

Quotes About Marling #863474
#79. To sway opinion should never be the motive of argument. I argue only for pleasure.

A.E. Marling

Quotes About Marling #871148
#80. I definitely tell things at arm's length but that is conscious. No part of me wants everybody to know what's going on.

Laura Marling

Quotes About Marling #897622
#81. My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.

Laura Marling

Quotes About Marling #923220
#82. When I'm sitting writing, I know that something works if I've made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion.

Brit Marling

Quotes About Marling #925596
#83. I was an incredibly misanthrope. I couldn't relate to people my age, and I'm not sure why, as I wasn't particularly smart or interesting

Laura Marling

Quotes About Marling #927432
#84. Only the flawed can be flawless.

A.E. Marling

Quotes About Marling #933571
#85. Hiresha felt something she struggled to describe. Power and possibility swirled within her, along with a a sense of gasping potential in each moment. When she could a find a name for it, tears beaded her eyes. I am awake.

A.E. Marling

Quotes About Marling #944581
#86. 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.

Brit Marling

Quotes About Marling #947103
#87. I'm a songwriter, and I understand artistic licence. We can embellish, go on little journeys and explore our inner selves. It can be quite self-indulgent.

Laura Marling

Quotes About Marling #951208
#88. 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.

Brit Marling

Quotes About Marling #1007226
#89. All my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences.

Laura Marling

Quotes About Marling #1015650
#90. I've noticed that, with many of the authors I like, I tend to think I would dislike them as human beings or that there'd be a healthy amount of debate if I ever did meet them.

Laura Marling

Quotes About Marling #1025469
#91. 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

Quotes About Marling #1040497
#92. 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.

Brit Marling

Quotes About Marling #1051827
#93. People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.

Laura Marling

Quotes About Marling #1069251
#94. I think we're always looking for an excuse to connect.

Brit Marling

Quotes About Marling #1085139
#95. 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.

Brit Marling

Quotes About Marling #1087076
#96. I never edit the songs that come out. And they tend to come out as a whole. The closest thing I have ever done to editing them is just cutting out a verse, but never rewriting lyrics.

Laura Marling

Quotes About Marling #1108327
#97. I think we're scared of intimacy - all of us, a little bit.

Brit Marling

Quotes About Marling #1111234
#98. We're always just telling stories, and stories are always just approximations of the truth. It's never the truth exactly.

Brit Marling

Quotes About Marling #1132316
#99. I feel like I'm creeping closer to finding the situation that triggers songwriting, which is obviously an extreme of an emotion.

Laura Marling

Quotes About Marling #1169673
#100. I'm incredibly neurotic and a control freak. I like the thought that if there's going to be anyone to blame it's going to be me.

Laura Marling

Quotes About Marling #1170500

Famous Authors

Popular Topics

Scroll to Top