Marling Quotes & Sayings

I always feel like the editing room is like coming into the kitchen. What kind of a meal do you make from there? It can be anything. — Brit Marling

One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book. — Brit Marling

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

I do so hate to be forced to be anything than other than what I am. — Laura Marling

Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you. — Laura Marling

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

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

We're always just telling stories, and stories are always just approximations of the truth. It's never the truth exactly. — Brit Marling

I'd like to make music for as long as I can; it feels like something I need to do. — Laura Marling

I think we're always looking for an excuse to connect. — Brit Marling

Any man worth his salt loves a feminist. Only men who are afraid of the feminine in themselves are afraid of women. — Brit Marling

My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism. — Laura Marling

I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have. — Laura Marling

Touch the sky of human imagination. Read fantasy. — A.E. Marling

Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy. — Brit Marling

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

I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe. — Laura Marling

Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life. — Brit Marling

I feel like success to me is about feeling like I have done something in storytelling, where I've gotten close to articulating something intangible that I'm feeling, and I think I get closer every time, but I don't know that I've done that yet. — Brit Marling

Lover please do not fall to your knees it's not like I believe in everlasting love — Laura Marling

I remember my father playing me Same Situation when I was a nipper, and saying how nobody since has done melodies as well as Joni Mitchell. I concur. The thing that most affected me was just her resonance, and that is something she must have been born with. — Laura Marling

People want to spend time together and I just couldn't pretend that I wanted to do that. But now I do get it. [..] Though I still don't do that. — Laura Marling

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

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

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

A fantasy story is a vacation to another world for the price of a sandwich. — A.E. Marling

I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that. — Laura Marling

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

The only thing that's important is that every day I'm waking and doing something that I really love to do. — Brit Marling

When you come out to L.A. to make movies or to do this kind of work, everybody is coming out on their own and you leave your tribe behind. Then, it's a question of, that was your tribe by blood, and now, what is the tribe that you're making by choice or by what you think is important? I think we were having that experience, so somehow the cult world seemed really compelling. — Brit Marling

No one starts playing my kind of music to make a fortune. But I do want to keep doing what I do and I do want to continue selling records. And I would, eventually, quite like some money. — Laura Marling

When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening. — Laura Marling

I'm the first to admit that I'm still pretty young, — Laura Marling

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

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

There are so many filmmakers who are so talented, and actors and writers who work so hard, and it's really hard to let your work enter the world. — Brit Marling

I feel like, when the audience connects with something, they enjoy the experience so much that they want other people to go have it. They're like, "Don't talk about it. Don't tell. Just go!" It's a nice feeling to have people coming around it that way, protecting the ideas in it, so that everyone can see it for themselves. — Brit Marling

It doesn't happen all the time, but in the moments where you really lose yourself and you fall into this character, it's like time travel. — Brit Marling

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

I think sometimes big budget means explosions! CGI! CGI, the possibilities are so limitless that it begins to be impractical. — Brit Marling

I sound awful saying it but I think it can be like that. I see a lot of people in unstimulating relationships. And not just boyfriend-girlfriend relationships. They find themselves in stagnant friendships. If people were a little less scared [of ending things] they'd get more out of life ... You meet the right person at the right time and they fulfil a certain something in your life. You fulfil something in theirs. But there's a time limit to that. Unless you choose to be bloody good company for the rest of your life, do you know what I mean? — Laura Marling

All my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences. — Laura Marling

You know, I can't imagine 9 to 5 writing. That takes some stamina. — Brit Marling

As far as I can determine, the universe is made of ninety-five percent contradiction. And I'm not certain about the last five percent. — A.E. Marling

I know there are lots of positives in the evolution of technology, but I also think it will be responsible for the end of a unique character, of a specific kind of geographical culture. The world is getting so small, and mass production is getting so big. Everything is in danger of becoming the same. — Laura Marling

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

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

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

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

A friend is a friend forever
And a good one will never leave, never — Laura Marling

I used to be able to sit in a chair and for four hours straight in a very focused meditative way be in my own world without ay interruption. And now it's like your brain is getting so trained to check your phone, and there is like a dopamine release every time you get a text whether it's a good or a bad one. I'm really worried about what it's doing to our minds. — Brit Marling

If I don't have an outlet in which to express myself ... throug h songwriting or other mediums ... I get a bit jittery. — Laura Marling

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

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

He who is without fear has no hope. — A.E. Marling

I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive. — Brit Marling

I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night. — Laura Marling

I need some isolation, it's necessary to me, that's just who I am. I need to be left alone. — Laura Marling

Once you play with these scenes and you're outlining it, again and again, and telling each other the narrative, and telling it to people you know, trying to make sure that the mathematics of the story work, you feel that those are in place, and the actual writing and final draft doesn't take as long. — Brit Marling

Exercise will be the death of me. — A.E. 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. — Brit Marling

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

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! — Brit Marling

Take me somewhere I can grow
Give me something let me go
Tell me something I don't know — Laura Marling

It seems to be this hot-bed for these ideas and bringing these groups together. You find that the one thing that everybody has in common, whether they're a teenager who has run away from his parents, or a divorcee who lost her husband, is that they all have in common this feeling of searching for a meaning in their lives. — Brit Marling

Now that I'm feeling the responsibilities of adulthood, the choices we make become an incredible weight. — Laura Marling

Oh! To not need cognitive justification for every single thing. Wouldn't that be a life? — Laura Marling

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

I am quite competitive. In stupid things like card games. — Laura Marling

It is quite hard to relax in London. I always say I'd move somewhere quieter, but I am a bit of a confirmed urbanite now - it crept up on me without me noticing. I always think that I function quite well on my own, unusually so, but then I'm reminded how important people are to me. — Laura Marling

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. — Brit Marling

People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard. — Laura Marling

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. — Brit Marling

Why fear death? Be scared of living. — Laura Marling

I speak because I can to anyone I trust enough to listen. — Laura Marling

I am slightly fascinated by the question of whether humanity is capable of change. I may have come to the conclusion that we're not, but we keep trying. — Laura Marling

I totally love my job, and I wake up every day basically thinking about how can I do my job better. It never feels like a job. It's hard, and it's exhausting sometimes, but it never feels like - I would do this even if they didn't pay me to do it. That's a pretty amazing feeling. — Brit Marling

I feel like I'm creeping closer to finding the situation that triggers songwriting, which is obviously an extreme of an emotion. — Laura Marling

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

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

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

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

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

I'm a big Johnny Cash girl. And I love singers like Laura Marling and Joanna Newsom. — Imogen Poots

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. — Brit Marling

I'd studied theater growing up and loved that, but didn't have many examples of artists around me. — Brit Marling

To sway opinion should never be the motive of argument. I argue only for pleasure. — A.E. Marling

You are the sum total of the choices you make every day. — Brit Marling

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

There can be nothing more frightening in a gigantic monster of many tentacles than intelligence. — A.E. Marling

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. — Brit Marling

That's the funny thing about cinema, it is an intellectual medium, but it's also sort of anti-intellectual. — Brit Marling

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

I've found myself at one in the morning just sitting at my desk spending an hour returning emails from the day until like two in the morning. It's ridiculous, I should be sleeping, or dreaming, or reading a novel. — Brit Marling

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

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

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

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

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

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