Brit Marling Quotes

So far, the thing I seem to have been rewarded for in film is leaving myself behind and transforming myself into other people.

I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed. That's the only way I can express it.

When people think of performing they usually think of show-offs, but I think of it more that you disappear into somebody else.

I am an actor, and I would like to reinvent myself through every character that I portray.

I sort of have the belief that you work being your character out while you're working on it, or that's been my experience so far. I throw myself into it 100% and try to live in that world, and then when it's over, just sort of be able to leave it behind.

I love disappearing. That's what acting is. For me it's about putting on a persona, stepping into a pair of shoes. It's my face, but I'm using it as a tool for that spirit, that character.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.

Modeling gave me an opportunity to be someone I'm not each day.

As actors, we get to hide. You can change your hair and your accent, and it's not you. You have tricks, these masks.

I was Aladdin, and then I was Captain Von Trapp from 'Sound Of Music' when I was 7 or 8, and then King Arthur. I was always the lead. I've always enjoyed being onstage, acting obnoxious, being someone that wasn't me, hiding behind a character.

The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

I love different roles, just getting into it, something that's the complete opposite of who I am.

Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.

I love roles where I have to transform myself.

They have become part of us in that if we get dressed up as them, we don't actually have to have a script. You can just become them. You just become nervy.

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

In my work, I want to convince people that I'm that character. If they know everything about Lesley Manville - private life, all of that stuff - it doesn't help. So the kind of anonymity I enjoy is key.

I think actors are attracted to the idea of other identities and concealing themselves behind some other identity.

I love to act because I love trying on other people's skin.

I choose roles that are not me.

I actually love doing period pieces, purely because it takes you into a different world, mentally. The clothes you have to wear are so far from our everyday clothes that it immediately helps with the character and putting you in that mind frame.

I do everything in the third person. Performance is about being someone else.

There's something magical about theater. You can live the character every single day to the point where you become that person.

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.