Samantha Morton Quotes

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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

  Believe, Issues, Looks

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

  Samantha Morton

  Dream, Ideas, People

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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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  Support You, Oxford, Parent

  "Samantha tells of secret stroke" by Vanessa Thorpe and Andy Capper, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2008.

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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, Political, Needs

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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

  "Young, gifted and gabby" by Burhan Wazir, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2000.

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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, Thinking, Mind

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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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  Children, Moving, Childhood

  "The Unloved: An Interview with Samantha Morton". Birds Eye View Interview, www.birds-eye-view.co.uk. February 15, 2010.

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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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  Actors, Breathe, Gifted

  "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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  Mother, Thinking

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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

  "A blonde with lots of bottle" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2002.

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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, Crazy, Kids

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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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, Children, Abuse

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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, Thinking, People

  "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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• 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

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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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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  Children, Nice, Heart

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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, Self, People

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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

  "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 can't act without music very well.

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  Without Music, Wells, I Can

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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

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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.

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  Men, Doe, Needs

  "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 am proud of what I've done.

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  Done, Proud

  "Young, gifted and gabby" by Burhan Wazir, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2000.

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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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  Tragic, Wells, Materials

  "Not afraid of the dark" by Chrissy Iley, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2007.

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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, People, Drug

  "Actor Morton tells of teenage criminal record" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2009.

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• I like to stretch my acting muscles.

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  Acting, Muscles

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

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  Trust, Directors, Forget

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