Quotes By Samantha Morton

I can't act without music very well.

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 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'.

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.