Samantha Morton Quotes
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.
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I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that's cliche, I don't know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.
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With a first season, you never really know how viewers or the network are going to react to a show.
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
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I don't know how much the economy has changed since Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.'
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.
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This is part of what's driving me, is this feeling like there's so much yet to be discovered in the oceans, and we're destroying it before we even know what's in it.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
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This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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I get carded for soda, you know, when I go to the supermarket. I mean, they card me for everything. You know, I can't even get through a hand of black jack without getting carded, like, five times.
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The life of an actor is very hard irrespective of the continent you are in. It is doubly hard when you are only eligible for minority roles.
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It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
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I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.
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For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
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Nothing's better than coming away from a film when people don't even recognize you, because you've undergone a total transformation.
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You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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I didn't want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally - Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least, I didn't want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it's OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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I taught a master class in film in France, and that was a great experience because I got a chance to study the French film culture and the French film history, so to add... just to expand myself just personally and professionally was really helpful.
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In a democracy, you have to find a market niche, make sure a novel is 'interesting' and 'spectacular.' That may be the toughest censorship of all.
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Get on up, stay on the scene, get on up, like a sex machine.
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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.
