Quotes By 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.

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.

I can't act without music very well.

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'.

I like to stretch my acting muscles.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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