Quotes By Samantha Morton

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

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.

The thing with me is, if I wake up one morning and I'm not happy working as an actress, I'll stop. It's not something I have to do. It's not a vocation.

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

I am proud of what I've done.

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.

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.

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.

Your spirit is your spirit, whether you're religious or whatever.

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

I was physically abused and I retaliated.

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

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

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!

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

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.

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

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 can't act without music very well.

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

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.

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'.

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.

I like to stretch my acting muscles.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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