Samantha Morton Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
When I got pregnant with my first child, I gained nearly 5st. I did a bit of pretending: 'I'm just really small, so I just put on a lot of weight when I'm pregnant.' That is true, but I also ate a lot of cake.
-
Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
-
Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
-
The government forces you to give your money to things you don't believe in, to have your money go to projects that might be inherently immoral.
-
I don't take on big things. What I do, pretty much, is make the big things small and the small things big.
-
There are many things which swallow up men's thoughts while they live, which they will think little of when they are dying. Hundreds are wholly absorbed in political schemes and seem to care for nothing but the advancement of their own party. Myriads are buried in business and money matters and seem to neglect everything else but this world.
-
We fly to the town in the little private airplane, and then we have to get in cars and drive to the hotel and then drive to the gig. So, I want to do a tour where the performances will actually be at the small airports.
-
I think movie and television companies are in the business of making money, and if you have a franchise, eventually you'll want to exploit that franchise and revisit it. So I assume at some point someone will do another story in the 'Lost' world.
-
In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended.
-
I love working with the Farrelly brothers. I'm a big fan and feel very lucky to have gotten to work with them a few times. One thing that I learned while working with them is that you have to keep your cell phone off when filming scenes, or you owe them a lot of money!
-
Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
-
What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.
-
The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.
-
Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.
-
Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.
-
I have not cared for money, and I enjoy working. Money comes my way. People work hard so they get enough money. Or they work hard so they don't have to work hard later in life. But though I don't need money, I still work hard because I like what I am doing.
-
In college, I wanted to be a child psychologist. Acting was just something on the side to make money. And it was fun.
-
How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.
-
Catch a vista of maples in that long light and you see Autumn glowing through the leaves.... The promise of gold and crimson is there among the branches, though as yet it is achieved on only a stray branch, an impatient limb or an occasional small tree which has not yet learned to time its changes.
-
Talking to the Taliban is a process the Afghans have to manage. It is their country.
-
No matter what, you've got to always follow your passion in life and always keep learning.
-
I applaud anyone who thinks I'm good-looking and invite them into my world.
-
What's amazing is that so many leaders who value teamwork will tolerate people who aren't humble. They reluctantly hire self-centred people and then justify it because those people have desired skills.
-
My name can raise money on a small-budget film.
