76 Quotes by Samantha Morton

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.