Samantha Morton Quotes

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.
Samantha Morton

Society, Yourself, Help

Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But we are who we are.
Samantha Morton

Dreams, Best, Else

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

God, Angry, Control

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.
Samantha Morton

Morning, Yourself, Problems

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.
Samantha Morton

Life, Food, Nice

I am proud of what I've done.
Samantha Morton

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.
Samantha Morton

Hate, Character, Why

Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
Samantha Morton

Life, Faith, Played

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.
Samantha Morton

Love, Success, Money

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

Afraid, Duty, Issues

I can't act without music very well.
Samantha Morton

I could be equally happy on a film set or in the middle of a field.
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Happy, Film, Middle

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.
Samantha Morton

Boring, Happen, Off

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.
Samantha Morton

Age, Forward, Moving

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.
Samantha Morton

Life, Decision, Made

I like to stretch my acting muscles.
Samantha Morton

Acting, Muscles, Stretch

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.
Samantha Morton

Women, Society, Happened

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.
Samantha Morton

Violence, Anybody, Kid

I think once you're a mother to one, you're a mother to them all.
Samantha Morton

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.
Samantha Morton

Mind, Between, State

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.
Samantha Morton

Parents, Succeed, Support

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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Life, Care, Said

I was physically abused and I retaliated.
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I'll never get a part in a huge action blockbuster.
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I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.
Samantha Morton

Makes, Actor, Breathe

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Nationality: English

Born: May 13, 1977

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