Samantha Morton Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“It's important to have masculine energy around your child.”
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“To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.”
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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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“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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“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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“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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“I believe it is my duty as a performer to raise issues in the world of things we're afraid to look at.”
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“I could be equally happy on a film set or in the middle of a field.”
-- Samantha MortonSource : "A blonde with lots of bottle" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2002.
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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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“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 MortonSource : "Not afraid of the dark" by Chrissy Iley, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2007.
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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.”
-- Samantha MortonSource : "Samantha Morton: 'I was abused for a long time and I retaliated'". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2009.
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“I think once you're a mother to one, you're a mother to them all.”
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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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“I'll never get a part in a huge action blockbuster.”
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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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“I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.”
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“My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.”
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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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“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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“I like to stretch my acting muscles.”
-- Samantha MortonSource : "I think she is attracted to women who have difficulties. It's very emotional when she takes a role to extremes ..." by Esther Addley, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2007.
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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.”
-- Samantha MortonSource : "A blonde with lots of bottle" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2002.
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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 MortonSource : "Samantha Morton: 'I could play a prostitute convincingly because my best friend was one'". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2010.
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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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“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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“The more visionary the idea, the more people it leaves behind.”
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“Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.”
-- Samantha MortonSource : "Samantha Morton: 'I could play a prostitute convincingly because my best friend was one'". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2010.
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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.”
-- Samantha MortonSource : "Young, gifted and gabby" by Burhan Wazir, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2000.
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“I was physically abused and I retaliated.”
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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.”
-- Samantha Morton
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