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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If you're famous, you're not free.
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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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Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris come from? [Fr., Ne sait on pas ou viennent ces gondoles Parisiennes?]
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I think the best things happen when you just let go and see what comes in. I find that that's always the most satisfying.
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There's a lot of craft that goes into achieving a hit song - at the beginning of your career, you're usually more inspiration than craft, and you get great when those intersect. A skilled songwriter can get you to that intersection.
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My life has been devoted to peacemaking.
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I get ideas from everything. A big color, the sound of water and wind, or a flash of something cool. Playing is like life. Either you feel it or you don't.
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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.
