Zitat des Tages von Samantha Morton:
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'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.
Your spirit is your spirit, whether you're religious or whatever.
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 believe it is my duty as a performer to raise issues in the world of things we're afraid to look at.
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 like I understand images and some people understand poetry.
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 am proud of what I've done.
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'll never get a part in a huge action blockbuster.
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.
Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.
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.
It's important to have masculine energy around your child.
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.
I like to stretch my acting muscles.
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.
My name can raise money on a small-budget film.
It's not about the money with me.
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.
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 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'.
It's more important for me to feel content than to be famous.
I can't act without music very well.
Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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 could be equally happy on a film set or in the middle of a field.
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.
Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But we are who we are.
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.
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've been in front of a camera since I was a little girl, and that's the medium I understand.
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.
To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.