Samantha Morton's 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.

I am proud of what I've done.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I can't act without music very well.

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

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 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.

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.

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 was physically abused and I retaliated.

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

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

I've been in front of a camera since I was a little girl, and that's the medium I understand.

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

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

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

The American Race is marked by a brown complexion; long, black, lank hair; and deficient beard.

The moral and intellectual character of the Africans is widely different in different nations.

In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.

The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.