Famous Quotes

"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 on Birthday

More quotes about Birthday

• "God gave us the gift of life it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well."

  Voltaire on Birthday

• "The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate."

  Oprah Winfrey on Birthday

• "My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me."

  Jim Valvano on Birthday

• "I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity."

  Eleanor Roosevelt on Birthday

• "The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance."

  Brian Tracy on Birthday

More quotes by 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!"

• "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."

• "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'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."

• "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."