Quotes by Samantha Morton

About Samantha Morton:

Samantha Jane Morton is an English actress. She has received critical acclaim and numerous accolades throughout her career, including one BAFTA TV Award, one Golden Globe Award and has been nominated twice for an Academy Award and once for an Emmy Award.
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Your spirit is your spirit, whether you're religious or whatever.

Samantha Morton

If I'm preparing for something and I've got a huge day the next day, I have to get into character the night before to assess the scene. I can't assess a scene unless I'm in character, if that makes sense.

Samantha Morton

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 ...

Samantha Morton

My family don't watch a lot of what I do. Films are a bit too arty-farty for them, certainly the ones I do!

Samantha Morton

The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.

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

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

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

On paper, it looks rough, but I had a great childhood.

Samantha Morton

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

Samantha Morton

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

Samantha Morton

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 Morton

Most of my life, I've been on a film set. There isn't anything to learn, not learn, unlearn. It's just in me.

Samantha Morton

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'.

Samantha Morton

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

Samantha Morton

It's not about the money with me.

Samantha Morton

My name can raise money on a small-budget film.

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

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...

Samantha Morton

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 Morton

Author Bio

  • NameSamantha Morton
  • DescriptionEnglish actress and film director
  • BornMay 13, 1977
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionTelevision Actor; Film Actor; Actor; Film Director