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Samantha Morton Quotes

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.

– Samantha Morton

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

It’s not about the money with me.

– Samantha Morton

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

People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It’s my job.

– Samantha Morton

I was physically abused and I retaliated.

– Samantha Morton

I like to stretch my acting muscles.

– Samantha Morton

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

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

– Samantha Morton

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.

– Samantha Morton

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

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

– Samantha Morton

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.

– Samantha Morton

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

– Samantha Morton

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

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

– Samantha Morton

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

I am proud of what I’ve done.

– Samantha Morton

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

– Samantha Morton

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

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

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

– Samantha Morton

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

– Samantha Morton

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

– Samantha Morton

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

– Samantha Morton

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