☝ Top 20 Quotes of Samantha Morton - Actress

Top 20 Quotes of 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.
✦ Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But we are who we are.
✦ 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.
✦ 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 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.
✦ 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 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 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."
✦ 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.
✦ It's important to have masculine energy around your child.
✦ I've been acting since I was a child, and though this was different in a way, I think I've been very blessed. The majority of the sets I've been on have been very inclusive and very empowering, and I've often chosen to work with people that sing from the same song sheet.
✦ I was physically abused and I retaliated.
✦ To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
✦ 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.
✦ 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.
✦ 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.
✦ The more visionary the idea, the more people it leaves behind.
✦ 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 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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🖎 Author: Samantha Morton
♛ Career: Actress
📅 Life: b. May 13, 1977
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