Quotes by Samantha Morton - Page 1

I am proud of what I've done.
Samantha Morton / Actress
Done
Proud
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I can't act without music very well.
Samantha Morton / Actress
I Can
Wells
Without Music
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I like to stretch my acting muscles.
Samantha Morton / Actress
Acting
Muscles
Stretch
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I was physically abused and I retaliated.
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Abuse
Physically
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My name can raise money on a small-budget film.
Samantha Morton / Actress
Raise
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I'll never get a part in a huge action blockbuster.
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Action
Blockbuster
Huge
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On paper, it looks rough, but I had a great childhood.
Samantha Morton / Actress
Childhood
Paper
Rough
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It's important to have masculine energy around your child.
Samantha Morton / Actress
Children
Energy
Important
Masculine
Your Child
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To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
Samantha Morton / Actress
Directors
Honest
Lazy
To Be Honest
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It's more important for me to feel content than to be famous.
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Content
Famous Me Important
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The more visionary the idea, the more people it leaves behind.
Samantha Morton / Actress
Dream
Ideas
People
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It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.
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Images
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I think once you're a mother to one, you're a mother to them all.
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Mother
Thinking
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I could be equally happy on a film set or in the middle of a field.
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Fields
Film
Film Set
Middle
Equally
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I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.
Samantha Morton / Actress
Actors
Breathe
Gifted
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The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.
Samantha Morton / Actress
Health
Clean
Rehab
Truth Is
Lots
Bill
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My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
Samantha Morton / Actress
Children
Mind
Today's Society
Violence
Inflicted
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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Catholicism
Huge
Survived
Life Faith My Life
Huge Part
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I've been in front of a camera since I was a little girl, and that's the medium I understand.
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Camera
Little Girl
Medium
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I believe it is my duty as a performer to raise issues in the world of things we're afraid to look at.
Samantha Morton / Actress
Believe
Issues
Looks
Look World Believe
Performer
Raise
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You get very possessive about characters, you feel you can see it in your mind and you want to play it.
Samantha Morton / Actress
Possessive
Mind Feel Your
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Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.
Samantha Morton / Actress
Trust
Casts
Direct
Directors
Forget
Cast
Performance
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Most of my life, I've been on a film set. There isn't anything to learn, not learn, unlearn. It's just in me.
Samantha Morton / Actress
Film Set
Unlearn
Life Me My Life
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Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But we are who we are.
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Dream
Looks
Want
Something Else
Wanting
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I don't get the point in a lot of biopics, they're boring. You know what's gonna happen. You're just watching actors show off.
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Actors
Boring
Shows
Actor
Show
Happen
Point
Show Off
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I want to prove that you don't have to come from Oxford University or Rada - and you don't have to have parents that support you - to succeed.
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Oxford
Parent
Prove
Succeed
Support You
University
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I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.
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Materials
Tragic
Well Written
Wells
Respond
Effect
Material
Monumental
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I just get really defensive as soon as anyone comes near my personal life. I made a decision early on that it's strictly off-limits. No exceptions.
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Decision
Limits
Made
Personal Life
Defensive
Exceptions
Near
Strictly
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I think anybody who has been abused as a kid - and I was abused as a kid, by various people - will say it's irrational because violence is irrational.
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Kids
Abuse
Irrational
People
Thinking
Violence
People Will Who
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I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that.
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Brilliant
Just Do It
Stories
Thinking
Writing
Short Stories
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The thing with me is, if I wake up one morning and I'm not happy working as an actress, I'll stop. It's not something I have to do. It's not a vocation.
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Vocation
Wake Up
One Morning
Wake
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For anyone who's been in care, successfully coming through the system is nothing to with money or success; it's the ability to feel love and be loved in return.
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Return
Successfully
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I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. That's when you most need God, and God cannot control what man does.
Samantha Morton / Actress
Men
Angry
Doe
Messed Up
Needs
Closer
Messed
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Coming back into television, I was very, very wary about committing to anything that could potentially take a long time. I don't mind movies, but I was nervous of television.
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Long
Mind
Nervous
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I hate the analyzing thing. People say, 'Why do you think your character did that? I don't know. I'm not an analyst, and they're not in psychotherapy. Unless it's a film where they're in therapy.
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Analyzing
Character
Hate
Psychotherapy
Therapy
Thinking
Analyst
People Say
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What shocks me is that so many people leave care and become homeless, and when you're homeless you get into crime, prostitution and drugs, and it is a vicious circle. That's what we need to change.
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Circles
Crime
Drug
Homeless
People
Vicious
Change Me People
Circle
Shocks
So Many People
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If I'm preparing for something and I've got a huge day the next day, I have to get into character the night before to assess the scene. I can't assess a scene unless I'm in character, if that makes sense.
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Preparing
Scene
Assess
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We're all living blinkered lives, and we're not seeing what's going on and looking to change it. I'm not saying that everyone has to make a political statement, but we need to be more aware of what's happening and why.
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Change
Needs
Political
Aware
Happening
Political Statement
Statement
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I have worked very hard on being aware of my childhood but moving forward and not letting it bring me down emotionally. That is a hard thing - especially when you have children of your own and you remember what happened to you at that age.
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Childhood
Children
Moving
Moving Forward
Age Childhood Me
Age Your Me
Aware
Emotionally
Hard Thing
Letting
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I wanted to make a film - and I've been wanting to do this for 16 years - about life in care, and bring it to the public's attention, because I had never seen anything, on TV or in the cinema, which said: 'This is how it feels to be a kid in care'.
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Kids
Cinema
Years
Wanting
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Youve got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.
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Book
People
Self
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You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.
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Doing The Right Thing
Eating
Right Thing
Shelves
Encouraged
Foods
Opposed
So-Called
The Right Thing
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I've been acting since I was a child, and though this was different in a way, I think I've been very blessed. The majority of the sets I've been on have been very inclusive and very empowering, and I've often chosen to work with people that sing from the same song sheet.
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Blessed
Children
Song
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When you've been raised in care, rap music isn't just about guns and sexism. They're talking about real things you can hang on to, problems of identity that you have sympathy with. It's not just about the music, with rap: when I was in care, it meant a whole lot more than that.
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Sympathy
Identity
Raised
Rap
Rap Music
Real
Sexism
Meant
Guns
Hang
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I think there's a very fine line between the type of performing that some actors do, and being in a state in your mind where you actually believe what's going on. If we weren't actors, what would we do with that ability? Would we not be slightly insane? Mentally ill? I don't know.
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Believe
Ill
Insane
Mind
Performing
Thinking
Mentally
Believe Mind Your
Fine Line
Slightly
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I had literally the time of my life, and thought, "Wow. Television doesn't seem to be as crazy as it was when I was a kid." The dream for me was always to be in the movies, you know. But when this came along, I read the first script and I thought, "Oh, my gosh. This is incredible."
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Dream
Kids
Crazy
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I will check the internet for at least an hour every morning scanning worldwide news to do with child abuse. So if you're constantly putting yourself in an environment where you're checking up on social economics or homelessness problems, if you keep yourself aware of it, you don't really have a day off.
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Morning
Abuse
Child Abuse
Children
Economics
Environment
Homelessness
Internet
News
Social
Child
Aware
Constantly
Check
Off
Hour
Least
Problems
Putting
Worldwide
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It's fantastic to strive towards a nice life where you eat nice organic food and your children go to a nice school and you can afford nice clothes and nice perfume and the hypoallergenic make-up. But there's never a day goes by, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, that I don't think about where I'm from.
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Bottom
Children
Clothes
Fantastic
Heart
Nice
Nice Life
Organic Food
Perfume
Strive
Afford
Goes
Towards
Organic
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There are brothels now that are run a certain way, and women make educated choices to become part of the sex industry. Their health is taken care of, and their children can be put through school. But, sadly, there's the underbelly of that, and I think that back then women did hold a lot more power in that regard.
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Running
Children
Taken
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