Samantha Morton Quotes

I'll never get a part in a huge action blockbuster.

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.

I believe it is my duty as a performer to raise issues in the world of things we're afraid to look at.

To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.

Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.

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.

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.

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

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.

I can't act without music very well.

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.

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

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.

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.

I was physically abused and I retaliated.

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.

I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.

My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.

The more visionary the idea, the more people it leaves behind.

I am proud of what I've done.

I like to stretch my acting muscles.

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.

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

It's important to have masculine energy around your child.

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

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.

It's more important for me to feel content than to be famous.

It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.

The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.