Quotes By Samantha Morton

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

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.

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!

I think once you're a mother to one, you're a mother to them all.

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

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

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 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.

You get very possessive about characters, you feel you can see it in your mind and you want to play it.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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'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 respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.

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

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 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.

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

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